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| Thursday, 20 November 2008 | |
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give
I give myself. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass. I exist as I am, that is enough. If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. Produce great men, the rest follows. Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. Simplicity is the glory of expression. To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
--- Walt Whitman
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