Fire Whitman

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    Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    By the bivouac’s fitful flame,
    A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)