101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Walt Whitman – Brain Pickings – Self Improvement Article
“The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, / The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.” By Maria Popova “Whitman is a projection into literature of the cosmic sense and conscience of the people, and their participation in the forces that are shaping the world,” the great naturalist and essayist John Burroughs wrote of Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) in his…