Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitmanwas an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 May 1819
CountryUnited States of America
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.
Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.
Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.