Warm Summer Night

"Warm Summer Night"  |  Anthony Satori

“Warm Summer Night”  |  Anthony Satori

“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… I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.”

— Walt Whitman

Reference to the Soul

"Two Horses"  |  Anthony Satori

“Two Horses”  |  Anthony Satori

“I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul.  Because having look’d at the objects of the universe, I feel there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.” 

— Walt Whitman

The Sea, Half-Held by the Night

"The Sea, Half-Held by the Night"  |  Anthony Satori

“The Sea, Half-Held by the Night”  |  Anthony Satori

“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the night… You, sea!  I resign myself to you… Sea of stretch’d ground swells, Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths, Sea of the brine of life… Howler and scooper of storms… I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.”

— Walt Whitman

O me! O life!

“Ocean Light”  |  Anthony Satori

“O me!  O life!  Of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish — what good amid these, O me, O life?

Answer.  That you are here — that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”

— Walt Whitman