words of walt whitman

 ...re-examine all you have been told

in school, in church or in any book, and

dismiss whatever insults your own soul,

and your very flesh shall become a great poem,

and have the richest fluency, not only in its words,

but in the silent lines of its lips and face,

and between the lashes of your eyes,

and in every motion and joint of your body.

Comments

[Stephanie]

"and your very flesh shall become a great poem".....YES! Thank you for this. :)

[lovely and imperfect]

stephanie, i'm thinking about this quote of his too:

"The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood of the moment - to put things down without deliberation -without worrying about their style - without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote -wrote, wrote...By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught."

[kelly]

if i weren't working at the golf course, with all these
bigs lugs of masculinity in the pro shop, i would be
sitting here with tearing rolling.

kind of hits close.

happy tuesday chickadee.

[Elizabeth]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Yes.

[lovely and imperfect]

Another gem from Walt Whitman

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

kelly and elizabeth: thoughts of you both bring smiles...

[Grace]

Wow..this piece was stunning. I want to tattoo it on my arm or something, it speaks to me that much. Thank you!