the innundations of WHITMAN quotes continues-- sorry, but every time i go back to this guy's stuff, i find something new that blows my mind.
(excerpt from "Song of Myself")
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the
earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun,
(there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand,
nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,
You shall not look through my eyes either,
nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
I have heard what the talkers were talking,
the talk of the beginning and the end,
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
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Indeed!
It is, so be now! Now! Now!
And how do I get a date with the mother of men?
:)
nothing
is more
permanent
than
change
in the present time
be sure
not to put the emphasis
in the wrong place.
in·un·date ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nn-dt, nn-)
tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates
To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp: The theater was inundated with requests for tickets.
New words by me:
incompleonix
an incomplete phoenix: a state of being between life and death that is neither.
finan
the 'coolness' of someone by their morally comrehensible actions not thier inaction.
inspiralion
a soldier of the army that seeks to inspire by breathing
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