If I accepted all the suggestions there wouldn’t be one leaf of the Leaves left-and if I accepted one why shouldn’t I accept all? Expurgate, expurgate, expurgate! I’ve heard that till I’m deaf with it. Everybody wants to expurgate something-this, that, the other thing. I have heard nothing but expurgate, expurgate, expurgate, from the day I started.
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It is one of the United States-it is the quality which makes the states whole-it is the thin thread-but, oh! the significant thread!-by which the nation is held together, a chain of comrades it could no more be dispensed with than the ship entire.
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I like it much-it is to me, for my intentions, indispensible-the sun revolves about it, it is a timber of the ship-not there alone in that one series of poems, but in all, belonging to all. “Calamus” is a Latin word-much used in Old English writing, however. I often say to myself about Calamus-perhaps it means more or less than what I thought myself-means different: perhaps I don’t know what it all means-perhaps never did know.Īny demonstration between men-any: it is always misjudged: people come to conclusions about it: they know nothing, there is nothing to be known nothing except what might just as well be known: yet they shake their wise heads-they meet, gossip, generate slander: they know what is not to be known-they see what is not to be seen: so they confide in each other, tell the awful truth: the old women men, the old men women, the guessers, the false-witnesses-the whole caboodle of liars and fools. I remarked to him: “Did it never occur to you that the fault is in you and not in the word? I use the word-like it-and am never once brought by it into touch with the images you speak of.” But he was obdurate-remarking only: “Well-whatever: I won’t have it! I hate the word!” And yet he was a man of force, filled his place well, in all the usual ways was sound and sensible.
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He said that he hated the word-that it called up in him images of everything filthy, nasty, vile. I was very curious about it, and asked him once how his antipathy (and it was a virile antipathy!) arose.
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There was one of the department heads at Washington who conceived a great dislike for the word virile-gave out orders that it should not be used in any of the documents issuing from that department.