Cathy Kiffney Studio, working outdoor. |
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise
riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing
known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful
uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read
these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine
all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever
insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be 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.”
-Walt Whitman
-Walt Whitman
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