I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.
Walt WhitmanUnder the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
Walt WhitmanEverybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.
Walt Whitman