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1 year ago

i thought i didn’t really like walt whitman, turns out i didn’t like the first translation i read. i got a bilingual edition and now i’m in love with leaves of grass :~ so lush. naked picnic by the pond bisexual poetry, i love it


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4 years ago

…this heart, that cannot tell itself, / This brooding yearning heart, that cannot tell itself.“

Walt Whitman, from “Proud Music of the Storm”, Leaves of Grass (via soracities)


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4 years ago

I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” (9.31), Leaves of Grass, 1867. 


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