Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Quotes

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”
― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works

“Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training-school for making first-class men. It is life's gymnasium, not of good only, but of all. We try often, though we fall back often. A brave delight, fit for freedom's athletes, fills these arenas, and fully satisfies, out of the action in them, irrespective of success.”
― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

“Omar Khayyam:     I sent my soul through the Invisible,       Some letter of that after-life to spell,     And by-and-by my soul return'd to me,       And answer'd, "I myself am Heaven and Hell.”
― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

“the old name absorbs into me—MANNAHATTA, "the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.”
― Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy