Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• I hate commas in the wrong places.

  Walt Whitman

  Hate, Writing, I Hate

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• Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

  Walt Whitman

  Healthy, World, Road Trip

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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• Where the earth is, we are.

  Walt Whitman

  Environmental, Earth

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• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Environmental, Haste

  'To the sayers of words' 2

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• When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

  Walt Whitman

  Architect, Ready, Materials

  "Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856".

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• After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Business, Simplicity

  1876-77 Speciman Days, 'New Themes Entered Upon'.

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• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.101, New York Review of Books

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• Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Vices, World

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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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• All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

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  Beautiful, Blood, Brain

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Delivery, All Things

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.73, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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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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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.169, Routledge

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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  Writing, Life Is, Heartbeat

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals, 1863-1865”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

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  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

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

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

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  Joy, Madness, Hours

  Walt Whitman (1947). “Leaves of Grass”

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• Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Charity, Personal Worth

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.245, NYU Press

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• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

  Walt Whitman

  Party, Flower, School

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.33, University of Iowa Press

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• God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

  Walt Whitman

  Children, Revenge, Mean

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• I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

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  Mistake, Usual, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.131, University of Iowa Press

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• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

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  Deep Water, Soul, Risk

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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