The Portable Walt WhitmanPenguin, 2003 M12 30 - 608 pages A comprehensive collection of Whitman's most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories |
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... give you joy of your free brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment, which so delights us, & which large perception only can inspire. I ...
... gives little hint of the poetry to come, except in its surges of homoeroticism and richly disorganized consciousness. In his political journalism, Whitman followed a principle that late in life he passed on to his young acolyte Horace ...
... give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or ...
... give you salvation, except in convincing you that you don't need salvation. If you share his vision, you are promised no reward apart from that vision itself. If you remain an infidel, you are threatened with no punishment. It is a ...
... give them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves. Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would ...
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PREFACES AND AFTERWORDS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS | |
DEMOCRATIC VISTAS | |
FROM SPECIMEN DAYS | |
SLANG IN AMERICA | |