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" Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. "
Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age ... - Page 27
by Walt Whitman - 1897 - 455 pages
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Poems

Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 pages
...more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand. Gear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both, and...
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War Department Education Manual, Issue 131, Part 1

United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 742 pages
...more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well center-tied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery...
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Walt Whitman

Richard Chase - 1967 - 50 pages
...autonomy of the self, which is "a mystery" not to be discovered by mere "trippers and askers" and yet is Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights,...Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical. From the very beginning the poem assumes a dialogue form, as is suitable for a prophet-poet, by addressing...
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Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth

Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - 1286 pages
...life in all its variety and dynamism: Urge and urge and urge. Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...identity, always distinction, always a breed of life."' The great Americanist critic RWB Lewis once noted that reading Whitman feels like reading "the first...
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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

Walt Whitman - 1961 - 196 pages
...heaven or hell than there is now. 35 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance .... Always substance and increase, Always a knit of identity .... always distinction .... always a breed of life. To elaborate is no avail .......
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Whitman's Drama of Consensus

Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 298 pages
...without wishing to absolve it: "Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, / Always substance . . . always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life" (CRE, p. 31). To exclude nothing but exclusion, deny nothing but denial, allows the poet even to shrug...
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The Value(s) of Literature

James S. Hans - 1990 - 182 pages
...more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. (38-46) Well aware of America's regularly apocalyptic tendencies, and even more aware of the American...
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Canons and Contexts

Paul Lauter - 1991 - 315 pages
...more inception than there is now . . . Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always...identity, always distinction, always a breed of life. The real challenge lies not in closing the American mind to distinction, but in listening to the choir...
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Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text

M. Jimmie Killingsworth - 1989 - 222 pages
...more perfection than there is now. 1 1 Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. Out of the dimness opposite equals advance .... Always substance and increase, Always a knit of identity .... always distinction .... always a breed of life. This is the assurance Whitman...
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The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

Stephen Fredman - 1993 - 196 pages
...the body; out of this certainty arises an apprehension of the mysterious doubleness of the witness: "Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights,...haughty, electrical, / I and this mystery here we stand" (LG, 31). 2. Don Byrd, Charles Olson's Maximus (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois, 1980), xiii. Olson received...
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