Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
1892
Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
1892
Whitman called these pages "diary chunks" and "specimen days" - unpolished, urgent, alive. This collection gathers his prose from the final decades of his life, including the electrifying accounts of his years as a wound-dresser in Civil War hospitals, where he sat beside tens of thousands of wounded and dying young men, tending wounds by lamplight and writing letters home for those who couldn't. Beyond the war, the prose branches into his daily walks through Manhattan, his philosophical meditations on democracy and the self, and his late-life reflections on mortality, nature, and the ongoing American experiment. Whitman writes not as a distant observer but as a participant in the raw, democratic texture of existence. These are fragments of a mind that believed the ordinary was sacred and that seeing clearly - whether a dead soldier's face or a single blade of grass - was itself a form of genius.
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“O to struggle against great odds, to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them, to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, face to face! To mount the scaffold, to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!””
— Walt Whitman
“I exist as I am, that is enough,””
— Walt Whitman
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men”
— Walt Whitman
“Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.””
— Walt Whitman
“am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.””
— Walt Whitman
“Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?””
— Walt Whitman
“All truths wait in all things,””
— Walt Whitman
“I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,””
— Walt Whitman
“Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.””
— Walt Whitman
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