...enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said, No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. (64) The Zen master's pronouncement also recalls the last passage in "Song of Myself": "If you want...

...enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. (12211222) Which is to say, of course, that when his consciousness encompasses the entire cosmos, he...

...never we will have an explanation. — HENRY DAVID THOREAU, FROM HIS JOURNAL DATED NOVEMBERS, 1857 You are also asking me questions and I hear you, I...that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself. — WALT WHITMAN, FROM HIS POEM "SONG OF MYSELF" (1855) It is not a question of how much a man knows,...

...significant to Whitman. The poet was not a teacher-figure. And so Whitman told his reader in his own poetry, "you are also asking me questions and I hear you,...answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself."35 Nevertheless, it is still difficult to see Whitman's poet on the same level with everyone...

...become enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of everything in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then? And my spirit said, No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. — Medical Review of Reviews, Mar, 1931. ITEMS OF INTEREST On February 2, Dr. Mary E. Wooley, sixty-eight-year-old...