Walt Whitman on Now
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“I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand — nor am I now…”
“Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?”
“All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.”
“Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.”
“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.”
“A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer, As of the far-back days the poets tell, the Paradiso, The straying thence, the separation long, but now the wandering done, The journey done, the journeyman come home, And man and art with Nature fused again.”