Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
complete book, e-book

Nové Literární doupě!

Literární doupě bylo modernizováno a přechází pod novou doménu literdo.com!.

Nový web LD vám přínáší ještě více knih s možností výhodného stahování většího množství e-knih podle vlastního výběru (tedy nejen jednotlivých knih nebo balíčků podle autorů) ve formátech ePub , PDF  a MOBI.

 Přejít na nový web Literární doupě

 

All Is Truth

 O me, man of slack faith so long,
 Standing aloof, denying portions so long,
 Only aware to-day of compact all-diffused truth,
 Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none,
 but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
 Or as any law of the earth or any natural production of the earth does.
 
 (This is curious and may not be realized immediately, but it must be
 realized,
 I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
 And that the universe does.)
 
 Where has fail'd a perfect return indifferent of lies or the truth?
 Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man?
 or in the meat and blood?
 
 Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see
 that there are really no liars or lies after all,
 And that nothing fails its perfect return, and that what are called
 lies are perfect returns,
 And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,
 And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as
 space is compact,
 And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth--but
 that all is truth without exception;
 And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
 And sing and laugh and deny nothing.