I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
Walt WhitmanThat the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
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 WhitmanThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanMy call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.
Walt Whitman