"Stop this day and night with me..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
More by Walt Whitman
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”
“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”
“All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).”
More on Self Discovery
“There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.”
“What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.”
“I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.”