"There was never any more inception than..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
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.
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“Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.”
“O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.”
“The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”
More on Present Moment
“I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.”
“The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”
“The destination of life is this eternal moment.”
More on Time
“If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
“Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.”
“Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.”