Walt Whitman on loving learning

Beginning My Studies

whitman-waltBeginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion,
The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love,
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,
I have hardly gone and hardly wish’d to go any farther,
But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.

2 thoughts on “Walt Whitman on loving learning”

  1. Stephen Dahl

    One of the best Whitman scholars is Harold Bloom of Yale. Recommend his few but pithy videos in YouTube.

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