Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
but don't move the way fear makes you move.

--Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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Friend, our closeness is this:
anywhere you put your foot, feel me
in the firmness under you.

How is it with this, love,
I see your world and not you?

--Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

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Poets to Come
by Walt Whitman

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.