Sublime

Wallace Stevens wrote in “Sunday Morning”:

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams

And our desires.

–M.N.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance

Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready-made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art.

perlego.com • Collage of Myself

Patriotism

poets.org

And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,

Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass

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.

Walt Whitman • The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)

it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind.

Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Leaves of Grass

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,” James Baldwin reflected in his finest interview, “but then you read.”