![]() No one “has begun to think how divine he hi myself is or how certain the future is. “to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any otherĭo I contradict myself, very well then, I contradict myself. What is it to us what the rest do or think?” Select lines from: From Pent Up Aching Rivers If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.”įrom pent up aching rivers, from the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day.įrom plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near, from the soft sliding of hands over me and the thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard…From the long sustained kiss upon the mouth or bosom,From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave…” “If the body were not the soul, what is the soul? Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking.” Re-phrasing of lines from:Sometimes with One I Love Sometimes when I was in love I would fill myself with rage because 1 was afraid the love wouldn’t be returned. One Hour to Madness and Joy (and also in From Pent Up Aching Rivers) “Passage indeed, 0 soul to primal thought. I “blabb ‘d, blush ‘d, resented, lied, stole, had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes 1 dared not speak, Was wayward, vain, greedy” “it is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,The dark threw its patches down upon me also,The best I had done seem ‘d to me blank and suspicious.” ![]() “1 too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me. You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself all your life.” “01 could sing such grandeurs and glories about you! “From this hour I ordain you loos ‘d of limits and imaginary lines.” (note: Whitman wrote 3 poems titled “To You” - all our quotes are from the longer of the 3 poems) Song of Occupations(or Carol of Occupations) “I bring what you much need yet always have.” Within me is the longest day, Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes.”Īh, well, “What is it then between us? What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?” “Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens. “You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself What widens within you Walt Whitman?” (in some editions this poem is titled Walt Whitman) ![]() “You shall no longer take things at second or third hand. All Whitman quotes are from poems in his single collection of poems titled Leaves of Grass An on-line version is available here. ![]()
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