Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
Birthday: May 31
Death: March 26
An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.
source: Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
topic: Reality, Space, Brain, Vibrate, Daguerreotypes, Semblance