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
A place about Walt Whitman
http://www.whitmanarchive.org
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