Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
Birthday: May 31
Death: March 26
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
source: Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.36, NYU Press
topic: Running, Song, Voice, Running Together, Human Voice