Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 11

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• The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Expression, Simplicity

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.115, Oxford University Press

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• Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Reality, Sight

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Hats, Please

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

  Walt Whitman

  Math, Leaves Of Grass, Bears

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• There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Vacuums, Flaws

  Walt Whitman (1995). “The Works of Walt Whitman”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am large, I contain multitudes

  Walt Whitman

  Stewardship, Multitudes

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Judging, Judgement

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• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Leaves Of Grass, Curious

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.79, NYU Press

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• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Humor, Sticks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry
  wood, and her children gazing on;
  The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the
  fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  All these I feel or am.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Children, Sweat

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

  Walt Whitman

  Reading, Writing, Iron

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

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• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Soul, Logic

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.21, Wildside Press LLC

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• The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Dark, Past

  1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

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• As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

  Walt Whitman

  History, Romance, Needs

  1855 Leaves of Grass, preface.

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• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

  Walt Whitman

  Different, Warning, Persons

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Brother, Unions

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.81, NYU Press

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• You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

  Walt Whitman

  Believe, Unseen, Looks

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

  Walt Whitman

  Average, People, Effort

  Walt Whitman (1963). “Prose works 1892”

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• O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Struggle, Gun

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Artist, Men

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.479, Melville House

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• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfect, May, Faults

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Eye, Light

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Men, Cities

  'I dreamed in a dream'

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