"When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography… - Walt Whitman

"When I Read the Book"

When I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
(As if any man really knew aught of my life,
Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life,
Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass · August 1, 2006 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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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.

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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.

Ezen a napon, ó, Lélek, csodás tükröt adok neked;
Sokáig hevert a sötétben, piszokban és ködben – De a köd eloszlott, vaksága eltűnt;
…Nézd csak, ó, Lélek! tiszta és ragyogó ez a tükör,
Híven mutatja neked a világ minden dolgát.

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