...to buy it. Walter Whitman, an American, — one of the roughs, — no sentimentalist, — no slander above men and women, or apart from them, — no more modest than immodest, — has tried to write down here, in a sort of prose poetry, a good deal of what he has seen, felt,...

...thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait." "Whoever degrades another degrades me. And whatever is done or said returns at last to me." He believed in human nature, in the inherent goodness of men and women: — "What behaves well in the...

...Bibles, and all the creeds." He knows that he is "august." He does not care for anybody's opinion. He is Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. There is nothing in the universe better than Walt Whitman. That is the burden of the " Song of Myself,"...

...first in his poem : "Walt Whitman am I, a Kosmos, of mighty Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy and sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist...or apart from them ; No more modest than immodest. " I speak the password primeval — I give the sign of democracy; By God ! I will accept nothing that...

...laws never apologize, (I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.) Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. Ay, we will "go gallivant." Have but a dozen superior souls found a fraction of the good reported,...

...laws never apologize, (I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all.) " Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...or apart from them, No more modest than immodest." Ay, we will "go gallivant." Have but a dozen superior souls found a fraction of the good reported,...

...and I burn not ? WE AKE 2. For none of us liveth to himself, and no ONE BODT man dieth to himself. 3. Whoever degrades another, degrades me ; And whatever is done or said, returns at last to me. 4. I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger,...

...uncommon, the extraordinary, but without any hint of the exclusive or specially favored. He was indeed "no sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them." The spirit that animates every page of his book, and that it always effuses, is the spirit of common,...

...mathematician. • Gentlemen, to you the first honors always ! Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, Less the reminders of properties told...eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no slander above men and women or apart iron: them, No more modest than immodest. Unscrew the locks from...

...fully equipt, And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire. Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent,...doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs I Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through...