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a_kosmos

from today's Poem-a-Day email

Nov 14, 2010 22:22

Continuities
by Walt Whitman

(From a talk I had lately with a German spiritualist)

Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form-no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

brangwaine November 15 2010, 04:25:09 UTC

This is beautiful. I am glad you posted it, because it is really hitting something with me tonight.

I think I am going to hold onto it for a little bit.

bodhifox November 15 2010, 05:34:53 UTC

Just watched the NX where Maurice beat the crap out of Chris for calling Whitman a queer.

a_kosmos November 15 2010, 05:43:02 UTC

I love that episode, and I especially love that it was either the second or third episode of the whole season.

Chris is right, though. Whitman made a few claims of relationships with women before the Civil War.... he claimed to have sired some illegitimate children in New Orleans, but there's not any evidence to back that up.

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