Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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Derek Caelin 🌱 · @derek
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We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul, Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic, And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return, And may be just as much as the seasons.

- Walt Whitman

#waltwhitman #poetry

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helices · @helices
119 followers · 5262 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn

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Tech news from Canada · @TechNews
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Massimo Forti · @Massimo_Forti
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Degli anni inutili e vuoti del resto, io intrecciato col resto,
La domanda, ahimé! così triste, ricorrente
-Cosa c’è di buono in tutto questo, o me, o vita?

Risposta:
Che tu sei qui

che la vita esiste, e l’identità,

Che il potente spettacolo continua, e tu puoi contribuirvi con un verso.

#waltwhitman #fogliederba

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Never Stop Reading · @kristenhg
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"I Sing The Body Electric

An epic recounting the history of the Electric Slide that can also be sung to the tune of The Electric Slide."

😂

electricliterature.com/famous-

#literature #poetry #waltwhitman

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Sampietrino :verified: · @sampietrino
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Sbarazzati di tutto ciò che offende la tua anima.
– Walt Whitman

#quoteoftheday #waltwhitman

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Sampietrino :verified: · @sampietrino
131 followers · 79 posts · Server mastodon.uno

Sbarazzati di tutto ciò che offende la tua anima.
– Walt Whitman

#quoteoftheday #waltwhitman

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Lavelle Porter · @lavelleporter
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If there are any Whitmaniacs out there, I'm going to be reading in a "Song of Myself" marathon hosted by the Walt Whitman Initiative, Sunday 4 June 2023. Details on the site. (If you click to the YouTube page there's a list of readers and sections.)

waltwhitmaninitiative.org/

#waltwhitman #songofmyself

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Mehetibel · @Mehetibel
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Happy Birthday, Walt Whitman!

Spoilers for "Nine Days" (2020) Edson Oda, dir.
youtu.be/pR2i24iJTX4

#waltwhitman

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MikeDunnAuthor · @MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History May 31, 1819: Poet Walt Whitman was born. Whitman published his first and most famous collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, in 1855, using his own money. It was criticized as obscene for its sensuality. During the Civil War, he volunteered in hospitals caring for the wounded. Many believe Whitman was gay or bisexual, based on his writings, though it is disputed by some historians. Oscar Wilde met Whitman in the United States in 1882 and told the homosexual-rights activist George Cecil Ives that Whitman's sexual orientation was beyond question—"I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips." Whitman is considered by many to be Americas first and greatest poet. He inspired many who came after him, including Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and June Jordan.

@bookstadon

#workingclass #LaborHistory #waltwhitman #civilwar #poetry #Poet #writer #lgbtq #gay #obscenity #oscarwilde #allanginsberg

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Bob on Books · @bobonbooks
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Cindy Weinstein · @CindyWeinstein
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Happy Birthday from ! "What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon." From 's "A Supermarket in California," written in , 1955.

#waltwhitman #allenginsberg #ginsberg #Berkeley #litstudies

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
1063 followers · 6044 posts · Server mindly.social

"Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary...
Looks with its sidecurved head, curious what will come next,
Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.

Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
I have no mockings or arguments... I witness and wait."

, !

#happybirthday #waltwhitman #birthday #otd #botd #poetry #WritingCommunity #quotes

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Lavelle Porter · @lavelleporter
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Nenad Knezevic · @grammaticus
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This week's poetry post on my blog coincides with Walt Whitman's birthday. 🎂 For the occasion, I've chosen his short poem 'A Noiseless Patient Spider'.

The post includes a vocabulary exercise for English language learners.

grammaticus.blog/2023/05/31/a-

Image credit: Jan Huber via Unsplash

#poem #poetry #waltwhitman #americanliterature #learningEnglish #englishvocabulary #englishteacher

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Jon Awbrey · @Inquiry
231 followers · 1719 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

❝There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.❞

— Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Log

#leavesofgrass #waltwhitman

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Jon Awbrey · @Inquiry
231 followers · 1719 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

@JaniceSelbie

❝There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.❞


oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Log

#leavesofgrass #waltwhitman

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Yahia Lababidi · @EgyptianAphorist
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In celebration of 's upcoming , here’s a of mine from an anthology honoring the legacy of this American classic.

#waltwhitman #birthday #poem #usa #poetry #books #poetrycommunity

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Dziga Vertov 2 · @DzigaVertov2
139 followers · 2226 posts · Server mas.to

Friday's poetry book of the day is:

#poetrybooks #poetrylovers #poetry #waltwhitman

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