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Walt Whitman Quotes.

"Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd... Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground."

This quote speaks of time and pressure. As Ben Franklin said, "Lost time is never found." As time goes on, present becomes past. This is the step that is most worrying. The crowd gathers in time and also diminishes in time. As the plougher and the mower put effort into their fields, they are rewarded when harvest comes. Success finds them at that time. This is all caused by space. Everything comes from space and everything goes to space. Today, maybe I will get a test back and it is space that has brought it to me. Future will become present, however, before I can find out whether it was successful or not.

"The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, The old husbandd sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;And these tend inward to me, and i tend outward to them, And such as it is to be on of these more or less I am, And these one and all I weave the song of myself."

This quote is about inspiration. Whitman is able to look around and find inspiration from everything. Even from time, while others fear it. He finds satisfaction in the fact that he will become older. He accepts that someday he will permantently sleep. He does not fear time and space, he is intregued by them. Whitman realizes that things must die in order for others to proceed. When I woke up this morning, i did not want to wake up but in orcer for my day to go on, my sleep must not exist anymore. In a way though it still does exist because whether or not I slept enough will affect me positively or negatively throguhout the day.