You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...
Walt WhitmanIn the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt WhitmanO to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
Walt WhitmanOur leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
Walt Whitman