"I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."
-excerp from Song of Myself, III
I was first introduced to Whitman in my 11th grade English class. Song of Myself was the first poem we read while studying Transcendentalism, and I immediately fell in love. He makes me want to run away to the forest and write poetry and grow a beard and forget about the busy world around me.
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