Human’s Are Made of Words, Stories
"Human bodies are words, myriads of words…" — Walt Whitman, A Song of The Rolling Earth, Leaves of Grass Book XVI
"I believe humans are made of stories, DNA is story, we carry our ancestors stories inside us, to which we add our own…" — Me
Have you ever read a line in a book or poem and only knowing the author, and not even how the words were exactly written in order to search for the quote, still persisted in a desperately effort to find the elusive needle…? With google the quest is somewhat simplified but on another hand, trawling through pages online is equally daunting.
I had read Whitman’s line in a loaned book the other week and while I was clear that it was in a poem with "song" in the title, and I knew it said something to the effect that humans are made up of words, the memory was unreasonably faint.
I felt like that line by Rumi grasping for "…a secret we sometimes know, and then not."
And yet I persisted keeping a range of poetry pages on my desktop open hoping that it would leap out at me.
And then, after staring at one page for a forth time - bingo, it was sitting there exactly like I had left it:
"Human bodies are words, myriads of words…"
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