#walt-whitman — Public Fediverse posts
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📆 DC people mark your calendars 📆
This is going to be great:Reimagining America: Toward a Poetry of the Demos
A literary forum sponsored by Writers for Democratic Action.
Sunday, May 31, 2-5pm
The Writers Center, Bethesda
with music by Dunia & Aram -
How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/13/whitman-emerson-criticism/
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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
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Song of the Open Road
You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
I believe that much unseen is also here.…
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn’d!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?Full poem here:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48859/song-of-the-open-road
#AmericanPoetry #PhilosophyOfLife #Poem #Poetry #SongOfTheOpenRoad #WaltWhitman -
TIL that Walt Whitman’s brain, destined after his death to be examined for details of his genius, was actually dropped and destroyed.
Squish.
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Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living
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Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/18/whitman-traversal/
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Crossing is a two-act #opera composed by #MatthewAucoin. Based on #WaltWhitman's Memoranda During the War (1875), it offers a fictionalized account of Whitman's time as a nurse during the #AmericanCivilWar.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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You have Walt Whitman's clear and expressed permission to get off your phone and go stare at the sky. See you out there. #literature #poetry #waltwhitman
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Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/27/fanny-wright-traversal/
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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
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Traversal: Proteins, Poetry, Blue, and Our Search for Meaning
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/28/traversal/
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
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Traversal: New Year, New Book (Seven Years in the Making)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/02/traversal/
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"…dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (preface, 1st edition)
(public domain: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322)
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"…take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, …"
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On living with absolute aliveness, by Walt Whitman:
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, …"
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"The Past-the dark unfathom'd retrospect! /
The teeming gulf-the sleep-ers and the shadows! /
The past-the infinite greatness of the past! /
For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?"
- #WaltWhitman, Passage to India
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#StephenKing se vuelve un poco #PhilipKDick en #LaVidaDeChuck de #MikeFlanagan ;-)
Me encantan las alusiones a la poesía de #WaltWhitman...
Es una preciosidad de película, es poesía hecha cine. -
I exist as I am, that is enough.
-- Walt Whitman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WaltWhitman #Existence
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
