Reads tagged with “Walt Whitman”
The Wisdom of Trees: Walt Whitman on What Our Silent Friends Teach Us About Being Rather Than Seeming
A supreme lesson in authenticity from a being “so innocent and harmless, yet so savage.”
Walt Whitman on Identity and the Paradox of the Self
“There is, in sanest hours, a consciousness, a thought that rises, independent, lifted out from all else, calm, like the stars, shining eternal. This is the thought of identity.”
Healthcare and the Human Spirit: Walt Whitman on the Most Important Priority in Healing the Body and the Soul
“There is something in personal love, caresses, and the magnetic flood of sympathy and friendship, that does, in its way, more good than all the medicine in the world.”
Walt Whitman on How Literature Bolsters Democracy and Why a Robust Society Is a Feminist Society
“America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without… Always inform yourself; always do the best you can; always vote.”
Walt Whitman, Bohemian Dandy: The Story of America’s First Gay Bar and Its Creative Coterie
“A failed romance. A restless sense of longing… These are raw ingredients that get mulled, weighed, processed — and ultimately transformed into art.”
Orson Welles Reads Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
“All goes onward and outward … and nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life
“Love the earth and sun and the animals… re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul…”
Great Writers on the Power of Music
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
Three Animators Bring to Life Three Beautiful Readings of Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
“And you, O my Soul, where you stand, surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space…”
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