#walt whitman

[havingapoemwithyou]

To a stranger by Walt Whitman

[sinmonger]

He wanted to anchor himself to Shane and just...stay.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Friendly reminder that Bram Stoker married Oscar Wilde's ex who rejected Wilde's offer of marriage (Florence Stoker what a slay) and also Bram Stoker wrote a love letter to Walt Whitman and also Oscar Wilde probably slept with Walt Whitman (the interviews are horrifying) and Wilde's meeting with the publisher that led to Picture of Dorian Gray being written was actually a meeting along with Arthur Conan Doyle for writing Sign of Four (Doyle called meeting Oscar Wilde "that golden day" and they both wrote to congratulate each other and praise the books) and--

[chantssecrets]

I am the man. I suffered,

I was there.

-Whitman

In Baldwin’s hand, cover page for the manuscript of Giovanni’s Room.

[pollen]

Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass

[deadlywaltz]

rainy days, reading whitman again, wishing to be near the sea… here we are again.

🎧 | Blue Jeans — Lana Del Rey.

[paper-fairy]

Bram Stoker in a letter to Walt Whitman in 1872

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

leaves of grass (1900) - walt whitman

"nebraska is not real"