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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535111" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Respondez!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">RESPONDEZ! Respondez!<br> (The war is completed--the price is paid--the title is settled beyond<br> recall;)<br> Let every one answer! let those who sleep be waked! let none evade!<br> Must we still go on with our affectations and sneaking?<br> Let me bring this to a close--I pronounce openly for a new<br> distribution of roles;<br> Let that which stood in front go behind! and let that which was<br> behind advance to the front and speak;<br> Let murderers, bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new<br> propositions!<br> Let the old propositions be postponed!<br> Let faces and theories be turn'd inside out! let meanings be freely<br> criminal, as well as results!<br> Let there be no suggestion above the suggestion of drudgery! 10<br> Let none be pointed toward his destination! (Say! do you know your<br> destination?)<br> Let men and women be mock'd with bodies and mock'd with Souls!<br> Let the love that waits in them, wait! let it die, or pass stillborn<br> to other spheres!<br> Let the sympathy that waits in every man, wait! or let it also pass,<br> a dwarf, to other spheres!<br> Let contradictions prevail! let one thing contradict another! and let<br> one line of my poems contradict another!<br> Let the people sprawl with yearning, aimless hands! let their tongues<br> be broken! let their eyes be discouraged! let none descend into<br> their hearts with the fresh lusciousness of love!<br> (Stifled, O days! O lands! in every public and private corruption!<br> Smother'd in thievery, impotence, shamelessness, mountain-high;<br> Brazen effrontery, scheming, rolling like ocean's waves around and<br> upon you, O my days! my lands!<br> For not even those thunderstorms, nor fiercest lightnings of the war,<br> have purified the atmosphere;)  20<br> --Let the theory of America still be management, caste, comparison!<br> (Say! what other theory would you?)<br> Let them that distrust birth and death still lead the rest! (Say! why<br> shall they not lead you?)<br> Let the crust of hell be neared and trod on! let the days be darker<br> than the nights! let slumber bring less slumber than waking<br> time brings!<br> Let the world never appear to him or her for whom it was all made!<br> Let the heart of the young man still exile itself from the heart of<br> the old man! and let the heart of the old man be exiled from<br> that of the young man!<br> Let the sun and moon go! let scenery take the applause of the<br> audience! let there be apathy under the stars!<br> Let freedom prove no man's inalienable right! every one who can<br> tyrannize, let him tyrannize to his satisfaction!<br> Let none but infidels be countenanced!<br> Let the eminence of meanness, treachery, sarcasm, hate, greed,<br> indecency, impotence, lust, be taken for granted above all! let<br> writers, judges, governments, households, religions,<br> philosophies, take such for granted above all!<br> Let the worst men beget children out of the worst women! 30<br> Let the priest still play at immortality!<br> Let death be inaugurated!<br> Let nothing remain but the ashes of teachers, artists, moralists,<br> lawyers, and learn'd and polite persons!<br> Let him who is without my poems be assassinated!<br> Let the cow, the horse, the camel, the garden-bee--let the mudfish,<br> the lobster, the mussel, eel, the sting-ray, and the grunting<br> pig-fish--let these, and the like of these, be put on a perfect<br> equality with man and woman!<br> Let churches accommodate serpents, vermin, and the corpses of those<br> who have died of the most filthy of diseases!<br> Let marriage slip down among fools, and be for none but fools!<br> Let men among themselves talk and think forever obscenely of women!<br> and let women among themselves talk and think obscenely of men!<br> Let us all, without missing one, be exposed in public, naked,<br> monthly, at the peril of our lives! let our bodies be freely<br> handled and examined by whoever chooses!<br> Let nothing but copies at second hand be permitted to exist upon the<br> earth!    40<br> Let the earth desert God, nor let there ever henceforth be mention'd<br> the name of God!<br> Let there be no God!<br> Let there be money, business, imports, exports, custom, authority,<br> precedents, pallor, dyspepsia, smut, ignorance, unbelief!<br> Let judges and criminals be transposed! let the prison-keepers be put<br> in prison! let those that were prisoners take the keys! Say!<br> why might they not just as well be transposed?)<br> Let the slaves be masters! let the masters become slaves!<br> Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever<br> bawling! let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the<br> stands!<br> Let the Asiatic, the African, the European, the American, and the<br> Australian, go armed against the murderous stealthiness of each<br> other! let them sleep armed! let none believe in good will!<br> Let there be no unfashionable wisdom! let such be scorn'd and derided<br> off from the earth!<br> Let a floating cloud in the sky--let a wave of the sea--let growing<br> mint, spinach, onions, tomatoes--let these be exhibited as<br> shows, at a great price for admission!<br> Let all the men of These States stand aside for a few smouchers! let<br> the few seize on what they choose! let the rest gawk, giggle,<br> starve, obey!   50<br> Let shadows be furnish'd with genitals! let substances be deprived of<br> their genitals!<br> Let there be wealthy and immense cities--but still through any of<br> them, not a single poet, savior, knower, lover!<br> Let the infidels of These States laugh all faith away!<br> If one man be found who has faith, let the rest set upon him!<br> Let them affright faith! let them destroy the power of breeding<br> faith!<br> Let the she-harlots and the he-harlots be prudent! let them dance on,<br> while seeming lasts! (O seeming! seeming! seeming!)<br> Let the preachers recite creeds! let them still teach only what they<br> have been taught!<br> Let insanity still have charge of sanity!<br> Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds!<br> Let the daub'd portraits of heroes supersede heroes! 60<br> Let the manhood of man never take steps after itself!<br> Let it take steps after eunuchs, and after consumptive and genteel<br> persons!<br> Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel!<br> (Say! which is trodden under heel, after all?)<br> Let the reflections of the things of the world be studied in mirrors!<br> let the things themselves still continue unstudied!<br> Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in himself!<br> Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself!<br> (What real happiness have you had one single hour through your whole<br> life?)<br> Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of<br> death! (What do you suppose death will do, then?)</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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 (The war is completed--the price is paid--the title is settled beyond
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 Let every one answer! let those who sleep be waked! let none evade!
 Must we still go on with our affectations and sneaking?
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