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Walt Whitman: “Fulfilling Our Foray”

Photographers Unknown, (Fulfilling Our Foray)

“WE two boys together clinging,

One the other never leaving,

Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,

Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,

Arm’d and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.

No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,

threatening,

Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on

the turf or the sea-beach dancing,

Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness

chasing,

Fulfilling our foray.” 

—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1900

Neil Gaiman: “. . .And They Watched Him”

Photographer Unknown, (Black Straps and Birds Flying)

“It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying. It was somewhere in the first hundred or so, anyway. And it was in the way they didn’t coo, or caw, or trill, or song. They simply landed on the wire, and they watched him.”

–Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

Ernest Hemingway: “Good as Spring Itself”

Photographer Unknown, Good as Spring Itself

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”

― Ernest Hemingway,  A Moveable Feast