In old age, lame and sick…I find in this visit to New York, and the daily contact and rapport with its myriad people, on the scale of the oceans and tides, the best, most effective medicine my soul has yet partaken—the grandest physical habitat and surroundings of land and water the globe affords.


Specimen Days in America

Walt Whitman Quotes

In old age, lame and sick…I find in this visit to New York, and the daily contact and rapport with its myriad people, on the scale of the oceans...

In old age, lame and sick…I find in this visit to New York, and the daily contact and rapport with its myriad people, on the scale of the oceans...

In old age, lame and sick…I find in this visit to New York, and the daily contact and rapport with its myriad people, on the scale of the oceans...

In old age, lame and sick…I find in this visit to New York, and the daily contact and rapport with its myriad people, on the scale of the oceans...