"Beautiful Day"
Lyrics, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song
Pig
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
“Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different”
“In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.”
On Photography (1977)
Context: Whitman thought he was not abolishing beauty but generalizing it. So, for generations, did the most gifted American photographers, in their polemical pursuit of the trivial and the vulgar. But among American photographers who have matured since World War II, the Whitmanesque mandate to record in its entirety the extravagant candors of actual American experience has gone sour. In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty & beauty. You get dwarfs.
"America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly", p. 29
“Max-Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
Lay your sleeping head, my love (1937), lines 1–2, written January 1937; also known as Lullaby.
