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poets of the kosmos -- walt whitman The poet is the arbiter of the diverse. The poet sees for a certainty how one not a great artist may be just as sacred and perfect as the greatest artist... The power to destroy or re-mould is freely used by her, but never the power of attack. What is past is past. If she does not expose superior models and prove herself by every step she takes, she is not what is wanted... Now she has passed that way see after her! There is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or the ignominy of a nativity or color or delusion of hell or the necessity of hell... and no person thenceforward shall be degraded for ignorance or weakness or sin. If the poet breathes into anything that was before thought small, it dilates with the grandeur and life of the universe. She is a seer... she is individual... she is complete in himself. The others are as good as she, only he sees it and they do not. He is not one of the chorus... he does not stop for any regulations. He is the president of regulation. The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and strategems to first principles. They are of use... they dissolve poverty from its need and riches from its conceit... As soon as histories are properly told we will have no more need of romances. -- Leaves Of Grass Posted 6/11/2007 link
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