Poets to come

Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before
known,
Arouse! for you must justify me.

I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual
look upon you and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
Expecting the main things from you.

Walt Whitman, 31 / 5 / 1819, West Hills, Long Island, N.Y...filho de Walter Whitman e de Louisa Van Velsor

"De aqui de Portugal, todas as épocas do meu cérebro,
saudo-te, Walt, saudo-te, meu irmão em Universo.

.....
Tu sabes que eu sou Tu e estás contente com isso!"

Fernando Pessoa "saudação a Walt Whitman"