Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Walt Whitman Wisdom

wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
wisdom is of the soul, is not suseptable of proof, is its own proof,
applies to all stages and objects and is content,
is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things,
and the excellence of things;
something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul -

now i re-examine philosophies and religions, they may prove well in lecture rooms,
yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds
and along the landscape and flowing currents-

here is realization, here is a man tallied, he realizes here what he has in him,
the past, the future, majesty, love;
if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them-

only the kernel of every object nourishes-

where is he who tears off the husks for you and me,
where is he that undoes strategems and envelopes for you and me ?..
here is adhesiveness, it is not previously fashioned, it is apprpos-
do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers ?..

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