sage advice from Walt Whitman, Holy Fool

[villager]

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and
the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone who
asks, stand up for the stupid and the 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."


http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-07-22/cols_ventura.html

[villager]

1. a bump for the poets

n/t

[villager]

2. and one more....

"pay attention to the poet...
cause you need him and you know it..."