What did Walt Whitman mean by: The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. - Walt Whitman Poet · USA Copy
+ Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023December 29, 2023, Walt Whitman, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Walt Whitman, Self, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last! Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walt Whitman, Air, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. Feraz Zeid, August 23, 2023December 24, 2023, Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass, Miracle, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walt Whitman, Alarms, Hug, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walt Whitman, Earth, Individual, Limitless, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Walt Whitman, Soul, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
+ A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking. Feraz Zeid, September 15, 2023December 24, 2023, Walt Whitman, Waiting, Women, 0 - Walt Whitman Poet · USA
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. - Jean-Michel Basquiat Painter
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England