Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 The indications and tally of time,
 Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs,
 Time, always without break, indicates itself in parts,
 What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company
 of singers, and their words,
 The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark,
 but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
 The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immortality,
 His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
 He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
 
 The singers do not beget, only the Poet begets,
 The singers are welcom'd, understood, appear often enough, but rare
 has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker
 of poems, the Answerer,
 (Not every century nor every five centuries has contain'd such a
 day, for all its names.)
 
 The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible
 names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
 The name of each is, eye-singer, ear-singer, head-singer,
 sweet-singer, night-singer, parlor-singer, love-singer,
 weird-singer, or something else.
 
 All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
 The words of true poems do not merely please,
 The true poets are not (...)
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