...Song of Myself issues challenges to the old belief in the tone of aggressive stipulation: "[There] will never be any more perfection than there is now / Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now" (SM, 3). Or Whitman will show his daring by extravagance: "The scent of these arm-pits aroma fmer than...

...Whitman's poetry. Toward the end of the essay, Burroughs quotes from section 3 of "Song of Myself: There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. (40-43) 1 * This passage leads Whitman to celebrate the "procréant urge of the world" (45), and that...

...were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. — WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself THE ORDEAL OF UNIVERSALISM Democracy and War Political thinkers often...

...life." 9 It is this principle that also underlies Whitman's later assertion in "Song of Myself" that There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. (3:40-43) This spontaneous sense of existence connects one, through the senses, to the here and the...

...were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. ' 1 In the early nineteenth century,...

...a microcosm of all the world, now a microcosm for all of history, present and future. Thus Whitman: "There was never any more inception than there is...is now, / Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now."14 There is no need to look beyond oneself to know the world, to feel it, to sing it. More dramatically...

...invasive species will follow us into the next world. Instead, he proposed (in Song of Myself) that there "will never be any more perfection than there is now/ Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now." In his "Song of the Rolling Earth," Whitman captures the ethos of American environmentalism in language...

...brothers drivers of horses99 Why should I do much ' The capitol, the president, the laws, I lilleg.} There was never any more inception than there is now Nor any more youth or age And will never be any more perfection Nor any more heaven or hell2 {31} The few who write the books...

...past or future, which he sees as contained in the mystical now: "There was never any more inception than there is now, / . . . And will never be any more perfection than there is now" (190). The concept is powerfully dramatized in the famous Section 5, which appears to be an account...

...talking .... the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,...now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world. (14) Stating that the world is "always"...