O lands! O all so dear to me — what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. – Walt Whitman
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman
O lands! O all so dear to me — what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. – Walt Whitman
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman
Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman
Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller