“Sometimes it seems to me that God 's way of dealing with me is not to let me see much of my friends, those who are most to me in the spiritual life, lest I should forget that the invisible bond is the only reality. That is the only way I can reconcile myself to the inevitable separations of life and death.” WayShouldI CanSometimesRealitySeemsSpiritualForgetMy FriendsLet MeSeparationInvisibleInevitableLife And DeathSpiritual LifeReconcile Author:Lucy Larcom
“The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.” FeelsShouldFeelingsSpiritualTurnsPoetEssentialsContactInevitableAddressesAssociationFormalNotableKinshipOratorsFormal EducationAmericanism Author:Edgar Lee Masters