#specimen days

[zurich-snows]

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on, and have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains... the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons, the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night." - Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, 1892

via @thelibraryofesoterica

[sorteswhitmanae]

You ask for items, details of my early life - of genealogy and parentage, particularly of the women of my ancestry, and of its far back Netherlands stock on the maternal side-

Specimen Days 

[waltsspecimendays]

I write and invite you to join me

As I journey and record the day-to-day

Within this blog preparing myself to be revealed,

To give you all Specimen Days & Collect.

[macrolit]

Specimen Days, Walt Whitman FYI--this is 1 of 10 vintage paperback classics that comprise our current giveaway. Check it out! :D

[perks-of-being-absolutelynothing]

“Do I contradict myself?  Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”  - Walt Whitman 

[sorteswhitmanae]

In the midst of this, with the suddenness of a thunderbolt, burst one of the most angry and crashing storms of rain and hail ever heard.

Specimen Days

[theunicornsdotnet]

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Specimen Days, a bonus track from Nick Diamonds' City of Quartz (2015)

[kentaurex]

i mean the song alone was SO MUCH in the first place that i went and tracked down the interview where they said what book it was based off of then got it from an out of town library then went out and had to buy it from out of state cause no one around me had it