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September 24, 2011
Walt Whitman: "I was simmering."
I was simmering, simmering, simmering. Emerson brought me to a boil.
--Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Inspiration. Jack London thought you could not wait for it. You needed, he felt, to go out and hunt inspiration with a club. Walt Whitman, however, was luckier. He was a relatively young man when Ralph Waldo Emerson was thinking and writing. Emerson set off the young printer and hack writer, hurling him into an exuberant and celebratory realm, where no one had ever been.
Wild Walt, circa 1860, by Matthew Brady
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at September 24, 2011 03:33 PM