We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
—Walt Whitman
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I have read your poems with my door locked late at night and I have read them on the seashore where I could look all round me and see no more sign of human life than the ships out at sea: and here I often found myself waking up from a reverie with the book open before me. Love all poetry, and high generous thoughts make the tears rush to my eyes, but sometimes a word or a phrase of yours takes me away from the world around me and places me in an ideal land surrounded by realities more than any poem I ever read.
Bram Stoker, from a letter to Walt Whitman written c. February 1872
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“How calm, how solemn it grows to ascend the atmosphere of lovers”
Illustration for a rare 1913 edition of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ by artist Margaret C. Cook.
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✨Wack-An-Author!!!✨
Pick a dead classic author from this poll that you'd personally want to punch!! This is all fun in games, I love bullying dead people 💛.
Listen everyone wants to beat up Lovecraft. That's a given, no competition. So he's not here.
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“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”
— Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman
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“But first and foremost, I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple—or a green field—a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing—an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness—wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays
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I want a Mr Keating in my life as teacher or father
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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Radu Oreian — After a Portrait of Walt Whitman (oil on canvas, 2018)
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