Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 4

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• Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Sky, Eternal

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.116, Read Books Ltd

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

  Walt Whitman

  Self Esteem, Leaves Of Grass, Goodness

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.229, NYU Press

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• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  Walt Whitman

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.521, NYU Press

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• I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Men, Thinking

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Autumn Rivulets', 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?'

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• I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Money, Hands

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.238, NYU Press

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• I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Leaves Of Grass, Satisfied

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.36, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Dead Poets Society

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

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• I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Sound, Leaves Of Grass, World

  "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  Walt Whitman

  Lessons, Passages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Dark, Animal

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Wonder, Mask

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.554, NYU Press

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• Where the earth is, we are.

  Walt Whitman

  Environmental, Earth

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• I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Thinking, Waiting

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.92, University of Iowa Press

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• Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

  Walt Whitman

  Cities, Liberty, Earth

  Walt Whitman (1872). “Leaves of Grass”, p.369

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• Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Affection, Problem

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.373, NYU Press

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• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Objects

  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 am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• My words itch at your ears till you understand them

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Teacher, Ears

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.191, Psychology Press

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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; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Men, Thinking

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

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• I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers.
  And I become the other dreamers.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Dreamer

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.71

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• I hate commas in the wrong places.

  Walt Whitman

  Hate, Writing, I Hate

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• A man can be a hero in any profession

  Walt Whitman

  Hero, Men, Profession

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