“The land and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes … but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects … . they expect him to indicate the path between reality and their souls.”
- WALT WHITMAN: Leaves of Grass (1855)
- WALT WHITMAN: Leaves of Grass (1855)
