Fire Whitman

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“A young person is a person with nothing to learn
One who already knows that ice does not chill and fire does not burn . . .
It knows it can spend six hours in the sun on its first
day at the beach without ending up a skinless beet,
And it knows it can walk barefoot through the barn
without running a nail in its feet. . . .
Meanwhile psychologists grow rich
Writing that the young are ones’ should not
undermine the self-confidence of which.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

“O magnet-south! O glistening, perfumed South! my South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear
to me!”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)