Poetry
- O Captain! My Captain!, Walt Whitman, 1865
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Walt Whitman, 1865
- Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day, Walt Whitman, 1865
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“Poetrys unnatral; no man ever talked poetry cept a beadle on boxin day, or Warrens blackin or Rowlands oil, or some o them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)