Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 10

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• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Leaves Of Grass, Poet

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.34, University of Iowa Press

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC

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• Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

  Walt Whitman

  Liberty

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.171

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• The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
  The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
  And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

  Walt Whitman

  Unrequited Love, Sleep, Males

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.110, NYU Press

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• I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

  Walt Whitman

  Mouths, Tongue, Mines

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Freedom Of Speech, Library

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

  Walt Whitman

  Self, Body, Celebrate

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• So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Light, Age

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• Oh captain my captain

  Walt Whitman

  Captains

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• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Eye, Night

  "Song of Myself " l. 33 (written 1855)

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• The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

  Walt Whitman

  Race, Making Love, Insulting

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.752, NYU Press

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• Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

  Walt Whitman

  Doors, Library, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.456, NYU Press

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• To behold the day-break!
  The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  The air tastes good to my palate.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Air, Shadow

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

  Walt Whitman

  Battle, Revolution, Rebellion

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.148, St. Martin's Press

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• Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

  Walt Whitman

  Freedom, Journey, Hiking

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• I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

  Walt Whitman

  Refuse

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Battle

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

  Walt Whitman

  Ignorance, Democracy, Rulership

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.409, Penguin

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

  Walt Whitman

  Panic, Siege, Engagement

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

  Walt Whitman

  Hands, Body, Not Afraid

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.16, Library of America

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• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Perfection, Earth

  1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

  Walt Whitman

  Dead Poets Society, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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