Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Walt Whitman

POETS TO COME


Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!

Not to-day is to justify me and answer what am i for,

But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,

Arouse! for you must justify me.

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,

I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you

and then averts is face,

Leaving it to you to prove and define it,

Expecting the main things from you.


Walt Whitman, in Leaves of Grass


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