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Junio 23, 2003
This is what you shall do...
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate
tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence
toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or
to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated
persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read
these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your
life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in
any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very
flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only
in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and
between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of
your body...
Walt Whitman
Posted by sarita at Junio 23, 2003 2:45 PM