Crystal Qualls

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“WOMEN sit, or move to and fro — some old, some young;
The young are beautiful — but the old are more beautiful than the young.”
― Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass

“Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my
brain for future use with its shows, architecture,
customs, traditions,
Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I
Casually met there who detained me for love of me,
Day by day and night by night we were together—all else
Has long been forgotten by me,
I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung
To me,
Again we wander, we love, we separate again,
Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go,
I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass