Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 12

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• Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
  We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss.
  Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
  So long!And I hope we shall meet again.

  Walt Whitman

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Giving

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.333, NYU Press

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• What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Sound, Curious

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.732, NYU Press

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• I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

  Walt Whitman

  Exercise, Past, America

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

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• I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

  Walt Whitman

  War, Sadness, Eye

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• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Leaves Of Grass, Enough

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.41, NYU Press

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• I dance with the dancers.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance, Dancer

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Whitman: Poems”, p.9, Everyman's Library

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• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Flower, Color

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.236, St. Martin's Press

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• I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Long, Sound

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.37, St. Martin's Press

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• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Women, Cities

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

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• In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

  Walt Whitman

  Mind, Progress, Evolution

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Specimen Days: & Collect”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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• My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

  Walt Whitman

  Notebook, Home, Writing

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• In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Flower, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2013). “The Poems of Walt Whitman: Patriotic Poems”, p.22, eBookIt.com

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• I sing the body electric,
  The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Army, Soul, Body

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
  Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
  Strong and content I travel the open road.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Strong, Criticism

  1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

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• There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Leaves Of Grass, Firsts

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.221, University of Iowa Press

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• To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Animal, Perfect

  Walt Whitman (1949). “The poetry and prose”

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• An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

  Walt Whitman

  Quality, Individual, Superb

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”

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• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Through My Eyes, Spectre

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

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• ...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Men, Two

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.293

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• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
  Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
  . . . .
  A reminiscence sing.

  Walt Whitman

  Bird, Musical, Cradle

  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" l. 1 (1881)

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Humble, Illiterate Person

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Hands, Cities

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.220, St. Martin's Press

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• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  Walt Whitman

  Land, Class, America

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

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• Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Death, Memories

  Walt Whitman (2016). “The Patriotic Poems”, p.72, Walt Whitman

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• I sing the body electric.

  Walt Whitman

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Title of poem (1855)

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