Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 4

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• The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

  Walt Whitman

  Excess, Strange, Mark

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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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• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, School, Eye

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

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• I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Boots, Hats

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.148, Psychology Press

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• You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

  Walt Whitman

  Investing, Want, Way

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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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• All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Action, Procession

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80

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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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• 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 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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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  Walt Whitman

  Karma, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.226, NYU Press

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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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• Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Battle, Leaves Of Grass, Spirit

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "Specimen Days & Collect".

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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 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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• When I give, I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance, Helping Others, Giving

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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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 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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• 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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• Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

  Walt Whitman

  Saws

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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