Happy Belated Birthday Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 — March 26, 1892). With that in mind, we have two quotes and a reading of one of his poems by James Earl Jones (something new) for this week's Quote of the Week! Enjoy!
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“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
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
“Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.”
Walt Whitman
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A Quote of the Week Bonus...
A link to James Earl Jones reading Walt Whitman's Song to Myself (verses 6, 7, 17, 18, and 19)
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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