This quotation comes from the third section of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," and while at first glance, it does not appear to have much to do with politics, it actually presents a distinction between the speaker and the "talkers" he mentions a few lines earlier. Let's explore this in more detail.
The section begins with the speaker remarking that he has heard the talkers, the politicians and philosophers, talking about beginnings and ends. Yet he does not speak of these things. He is satisfied, rather, with the present moment, with his singing and dancing and laughing and with the small things that mean so much.
The politicians and philosophers can talk, but perhaps they do not live. Their speech often divides, and it does not focus on what is best and worst. The speaker focuses on what is good, distinguishing it from what is not and embracing goodness and plenty.
We might also observe that what the speaker describes is, at heart, freedom and democracy, the ability to live in peace in the present moment.
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