Whitman on The Poet

by Travis Prinzi on May 9, 2007

“The land and sea, the animals, fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests, mountains and rivers, are not small themes…but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects…they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls.”

~ Walt Whitman, from the preface to The Leaves of Grass

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