You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me a… - Walt Whitman

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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, George Collins Cox / Adam Cuerden (Public domain / CC0)

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Additional quotes by Walt Whitman

"Da "Ahimè! Ah vita!"

Ahimè! Ah vita! di queste domande che ricorrono,
degli infiniti cortei di senza fede, di città piene di sciocchi,
di me stesso che sempre mi rimprovero, (perché chi più sciocco di me, e chi più senza fede?)
di occhi che invano bramano la luce, di meschini scopi, della battaglia sempre rinnovata,
dei poveri risultati di tutto, della folla che vedo sordida camminare a fatica attorno a me,
dei vuoti ed inutili anni degli altri, io con gli altri legato in tanti nodi,
la domanda, ahimè, la domanda così triste che ricorre - Cosa c'è di buono in tutto questo, ahimè, ah vita?

Risposta
Che tu sei qui - che esiste la vita e l'individuo, che il potete spettacolo continua, e tu puoi contribuirvi con un tuo verso."

All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?)
Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

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