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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=534974" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Carol Of Words</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">EARTH, round, rolling, compact--suns, moons, animals--all these are<br> words to be said;<br> Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances--beings, premonitions, lispings<br> of the future,<br> Behold! these are vast words to be said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Were you thinking that those were the words--those upright lines?<br> those curves, angles, dots?<br> No, those are not the words--the substantial words are in the ground<br> and sea,<br> They are in the air--they are in you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Were you thinking that those were the words--those delicious sounds<br> out of your friends' mouths?<br> No, the real words are more delicious than they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Human bodies are words, myriads of words;<br> In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped,<br> natural, gay,   10<br> Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of<br> shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Air, soil, water, fire--these are words;<br> I myself am a word with them--my qualities interpenetrate with<br> theirs--my name is nothing to them;<br> Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air,<br> soil, water, fire, know of my name?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding gesture, are words,<br> sayings, meanings;<br> The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are<br> sayings and meanings also.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> The workmanship of souls is by the inaudible words of the earth;<br> The great masters know the earth's words, and use them more than the<br> audible words.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Amelioration is one of the earth's words;<br> The earth neither lags nor hastens;  20<br> It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the<br> jump;<br> It is not half beautiful only--defects and excrescences show just as<br> much as perfections show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough;<br> The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd<br> either;<br> They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print;<br> They are imbued through all things, conveying themselves willingly,<br> Conveying a sentiment and invitation of the earth--I utter and utter,<br> I speak not, yet if you hear me not, of what avail am I to you?<br> To bear--to better--lacking these, of what avail am I?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Accouche! Accouchez!   30<br> Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?<br> Will you squat and stifle there?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The earth does not argue,<br> Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,<br> Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,<br> Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,<br> Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,<br> Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> The earth does not exhibit itself, nor refuse to exhibit itself--<br> possesses still underneath;<br> Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the<br> wail of slaves,   40<br> Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young<br> people, accents of bargainers,<br> Underneath these, possessing the words that never fail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> To her children, the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never<br> fail;<br> The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection<br> does not fail;<br> Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not<br> fail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Of the interminable sisters,<br> Of the ceaseless cotillions of sisters,<br> Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger<br> sisters,<br> The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.<br> With her ample back towards every beholder,  50<br> With the fascinations of youth, and the equal fascinations of age,<br> Sits she whom I too love like the rest--sits undisturb'd,<br> Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her<br> eyes glance back from it,<br> Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,<br> Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Seen at hand, or seen at a distance,<br> Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,<br> Duly approach and pass with their companions, or a companion,<br> Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances<br> of those who are with them,<br> From the countenances of children or women, or the manly<br> countenance,    60<br> From the open countenances of animals, or from inanimate things,<br> From the landscape or waters, or from the exquisite apparition of the<br> sky,<br> From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,<br> Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the<br> same companions.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-<br> five resistlessly round the sun;<br> Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and<br> sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Tumbling on steadily, nothing dreading,<br> Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,<br> The Soul's realization and determination still inheriting,<br> The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing, 70<br> No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,<br> Swift, glad, content, unbereav'd, nothing losing,<br> Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,<br> The divine ship sails the divine sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you;<br> The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and<br> liquid,<br> You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,<br> For none more than you are the present and the past,<br> For none more than you is immortality.  80</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Each man to himself, and each woman to herself, such is the word of<br> the past and present, and the word of immortality;<br> No one can acquire for another--not one!<br> Not one can grow for another--not one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him;<br> The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him;<br> The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him;<br> The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him;<br> The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him;<br> The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him--it cannot fail;<br> The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress,<br> not to the audience;   90<br> And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the<br> indication of his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be<br> complete!<br> I swear the earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who<br> remains jagged and broken!<br> I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of<br> the earth!<br> I swear there can be no theory of any account, unless it corroborate<br> the theory of the earth!<br> No politics, art, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,<br> unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,<br> Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of<br> the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which<br> responds love!<br> It is that which contains itself--which never invites, and never<br> refuses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words! 100<br> I swear I think all merges toward the presentation of the unspoken<br> meanings of the earth!<br> Toward him who sings the songs of the Body, and of the truths of the<br> earth;<br> Toward him who makes the dictionaries of words that print cannot<br> touch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> I swear I see what is better than to tell the best;<br> It is always to leave the best untold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot,<br> My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,<br> My breath will not be obedient to its organs,<br> I become a dumb man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow--all or any is best; 110<br> It is not what you anticipated--it is cheaper, easier, nearer;<br> Things are not dismiss'd from the places they held before;<br> The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before;<br> Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before;<br> But the Soul is also real,--it too is positive and direct;<br> No reasoning, no proof has establish'd it,<br> Undeniable growth has establish'd it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> This is a poem--a carol of words--these are hints of meanings,<br> These are to echo the tones of Souls, and the phrases of Souls;<br> If they did not echo the phrases of Souls, what were they then? 120<br> If they had not reference to you in especial, what were they then?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells<br> the best!<br> I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Say on, sayers!<br> Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth!<br> Work on--(it is materials you must bring, not breaths;)<br> Work on, age after age! nothing is to be lost;<br> It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use;<br> When the materials are all prepared, the architects shall appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail! I announce<br> them and lead them;   130<br> I swear to you they will understand you, and justify you;<br> I swear to you the greatest among them shall be he who best knows<br> you, and encloses all, and is faithful to all;<br> I swear to you, he and the rest shall not forget you--they shall<br> perceive that you are not an iota less than they;<br> I swear to you, you shall be glorified in them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q>
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