The Walt Whitman Archive

I have all lives, all effects, all causes, all germes, invisibly hidden in myself.

After death

The voices will never die.

Walt Whitman - now and then

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.

Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

from Songs of Myself.