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4.74K Posts, 26 Following, 124 Followers · Una excusa para unir la literatura y la música

4.74K Posts, 26 Following, 124 Followers · Una excusa para unir la literatura y la música
Walt Whitman’s Field Guide to Being Yourself: The Trial and Triumph of Leaves of Grass
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/18/whitman-traversal/
Do you know so much yourself that you call the meanest ignorant?
[...]
Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
For you only, and not for him and her?
~ Walt Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric," 1855
I exist as I am, that is enough.
-- Walt Whitman
Superb Edward Norton and I’m going to miss Steven Colbert. Watch how he gives his guest the space.

Wow! This is a must. Ed Norton was a guest on the Stephen Colbert show, and delivered a "reading" of an excerpt from a Walt Whitman poem. Norton had been talking with Colbert about the anxiety of our current time and his anxiety. He and Stephen are both big Whitman fans, and they noted how Whitman, more than any other American poet, speaks directly to future generations to remind them that his time too had anxiety.
IDK what I was expecting, but this was great. You can jump to the 16:48 minute mark for a minute or 2 of setup and then the performance.
https://latenighter.com/news/edward-norton-late-show-poetry-reading-walt-whitman/