Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — More Lucid than Poetry. [ARTICLE]

More Lucid than Poetry.

Walt Whitman says of his poems; “They proceed out of and revolve around one’s self, myself, an identity, and declaredly make that self the nucleus of the whole utterance.” This is more lucid than his poetry, but not much. Some of the poems are only fit to make the nucleus of a kitchen fire.— Norristown Herald. If you wish people to be kindly toward you, you had better begin by being kindly toward them. The man who scatters thorns had better not gc bare foot.