Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
Birthday: May 31
Death: March 26
Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.
source: Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.236, St. Martin's Press
topic: Love, Flower, Color, Warmth Of The Sun, Blanche