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comment by TheGreatAbider16
TheGreatAbider16  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately

I like this idea a lot! Here's mine:

    I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough,
    To stop in the company with the rest at evening is enough,
    To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing
    flesh is enough,
    To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm 
    ever so lightly round his neck or her neck for a 
    moment, what is it this then?
    I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
This a part of section 4 of Walt Whitman's poem "Children of Adam." I've been working my way through "Leaves of Grass."