"Expression of speech...
in what is written or said
forget not that silence
is also expressive,
that anguish as hot as the hottest
and contempt as cold as the coldest
may be without words,
that the true adoration
is likewise without words
and without kneeling."
-Walt Whitman
From Great Are The Myths
3 comments:
just know this: i love W2 more than you do (yes, i do!!). but, i love you more than i love walt.
Dear Na,
I was just listening to some tapes from the library on my way to Ashland Oregon for the Shakespeare festival. (2 things I missed while in Argentina: live performance of Shakespeare and great books on tape from the library!) These tapes had excellent readings of Whitman - and a lecture series about him and Emerson and Thoreau. Good stuff. I thought of you A LOT.
Here's a poem for you (may or may not be prophetic):
A Promise to California
And to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you to remain,
to teach robust American love;
For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western Sea;
For these states tend inland, and toward the Western Sea -- and I will
also.
-- Walt Whitman
The beauty of the poem breaks my heart. He is filling us with fathomlessness! Or something!
love, mom
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