Nature &Poetry Entropy | 07 Oct 2009
What chemistry!” The rapt poet Walt Whitman contemplates the mystery by which humans and animals rot into the life-giving soil. “It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, / It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last. While composting is a practical chore we suffer [...]
Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 03 Mar 2009
Wish to share wonderful & spiritual poem by Walt Whitman- Quintessential American poet who sang of individual freedom, democracy & brotherhood of man.. Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of [...]
Poetry &Science Entropy | 07 Sep 2007
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is America’s world poet — a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In his Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855 and revised and expanded for the rest of his life, he celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. This monumental work chanted praises to the body as well as to [...]