I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh
is enough,
To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so
lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then?
I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.
There is something in staying close to men and women, and
looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that
pleases the
soul well;
All things please the soul—but these please the soul well.
whitman
lynn
koller
was
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