Feinberg/Whitman Literary File Poetry File "After All, Not To Create Only" (1871). Facsimile. Box 25 Folder 9 After all, not to destroy but [re]invigorate, Not to create, but labor at what is already created & carry it forward,. Not [only] to command only, but to obey -- is the mission of the New world: After all, indeed, can there be any really New world? Walt Whitman Whitman series : 1 Copyright, 1913, by Horace Traubel and Albert Boni. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.