<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535083" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>One Hour To Madness And Joy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ONE hour to madness and joy!<br> O furious! O confine me not!<br> (What is this that frees me so in storms?<br> What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!<br> O savage and tender achings!<br> (I bequeath them to you, my children,<br> I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O to be yielded to you, whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me,<br> in defiance of the world!<br> O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine! 10<br> O to draw you to me--to plant on you for the first time the lips of a<br> determin'd man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O the puzzle--the thrice-tied knot--the deep and dark pool! O all<br> untied and illumin'd!<br> O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!<br> O to be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions--I from mine, and<br> you from yours!<br> O to find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of nature!<br> O to have the gag remov'd from one's mouth!<br> O to have the feeling, to-day or any day, I am sufficient as I am!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O something unprov'd! something in a trance!<br> O madness amorous! O trembling!<br> O to escape utterly from others' anchors and holds! 20<br> To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!<br> To court destruction with taunts--with invitations!<br> To ascend--to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!<br> To rise thither with my inebriate Soul!<br> To be lost, if it must be so!<br> To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!<br> With one brief hour of madness and joy.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535083" data-title="One Hour To Madness And Joy de Walt Whitman" data-description="ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! (What is this that frees me so in storms? What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?) O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man! O savage and tender aching..."></div> </div> </div>

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