"The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place."
Anyone else out there wonder what the speaker/Whitman might mean by "The whole referring..."? This is a great poem and it seems to me that this line is pivotal in understanding what he means by "miracles."
I sometimes wonder if Walt Whitman was the first American to practice meditation with the same seriousness and rigor as Zen monks. That's what poems like this evoke: a state of mind so serene that it gives one access to truths that can't be experienced otherwise.
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Anyone else out there wonder what the speaker/Whitman might mean by "The whole referring..."? This is a great poem and it seems to me that this line is pivotal in understanding what he means by "miracles."
I sometimes wonder if Walt Whitman was the first American to practice meditation with the same seriousness and rigor as Zen monks. That's what poems like this evoke: a state of mind so serene that it gives one access to truths that can't be experienced otherwise.
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Also my favorite line in this.
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