Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 16

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  Walt Whitman

  Change, Racist, Fool

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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• I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

  Walt Whitman

  Self, Soul, Body

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

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• In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

  Walt Whitman

  People, Empathy

  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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• I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Sky, Sake

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.279, NYU Press

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• The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Song, Husband

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.20, NYU Press

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• TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

  Walt Whitman

  Cities, Liberty, Earth

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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• O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

  Walt Whitman

  Land, Dear

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

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Past, Pioneers

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.475, NYU Press

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• Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Ideas, Profound

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• The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman

  Wise, Freedom, Men

  "Democratic Vistas And Other Papers".

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• A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

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  Sexy, Men, Waiting

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

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• We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Divinity, May

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.89, NYU Press

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• I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

  Walt Whitman

  America, Singing, Carols

  "I Hear America Singing" l. 1 (1867)

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• And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Dimes, Leaves Of Grass, Earth

  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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• And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Knows

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Military, America, Mankind

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.197, NYU Press

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• Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
  Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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  Evil, Roaming, Littles

  Walt Whitman, “Roaming In Thought”

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• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Dying, Boots, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press

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• Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

  Walt Whitman

  War, Blood, History

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Specimen Days: & Collect”, p.314, Courier Corporation

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• Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

  Walt Whitman

  Sorry, Blessed, Return

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

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• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Adversity, Imperfection

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.15, University of Iowa Press

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• I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

  Walt Whitman

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.450, NYU Press

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• What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

  Walt Whitman

  Race, Mexico, Noble

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