Walt Whitman: [17] These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me (from Song of Myself)

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[17] These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me (from Song of Myself)

Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, Transcendentalist poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry

by Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic : Transcendentalist

19th Century

These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing,
If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
This is the common air that bathes the globe.

-- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

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Themes

Water

Recommended Books

	Dead Poets Society (DVD), by
	Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
	The Oxford Book of Mystical Verse, Edited by D. H. S. Nicholson / Edited by A. H. E. Lee
	Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

Whitman is right: The deepest insights are never new or unique. By their nature, they are eternal and present within each one of us. Look, then, for what has been quietly present all along...

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