POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! <br /> Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for; <br /> But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than <br /> before known, <br /> Arouse! Arouse--for you must justify me--you must answer. <br /> <br /> I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future, <br /> I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness. <br /> <br /> I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a <br /> casual look upon you, and then averts his face, <br /> Leaving it to you to prove and define it, <br /> Expecting the main things from you.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poets-to-come/
