i am now reading The Power of Personal Storytelling by Jack Maguire. i want to be a better storyteller in writing my musicals and in my conversations in everyday life. in the forward of this book, the author quotes an excerpt from Walt Whitman's poem, "Song of Myself." when i read this quotation, i couldn't help but see myself in it as i relate to my world as a writer, person, and artist. in the line "and of these one and all I weave the song of myself," i see/ find/ feel that all of the experiences of others and myself become a part of me. writers find their own voices through their experiences and being in the world. this portion of the poem just made me go, "hmmmmm..."
"The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time,
the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
and such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
and of these one and all I weave the song of myself."
Whitman, Walt
Quote from Quotations Book
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