Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 6

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• The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.115, NYU Press

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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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• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

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  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Knowledge, Joy

  'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' st. 14

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• There was never any more inception than there is now,
  Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

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  Perfection, Heaven, Age

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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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.

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  Nature, Business, Simplicity

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

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• O amazement of things-even the least particle!

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Leaves Of Grass, Amazement

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

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• Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Stars, Moon

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.643, NYU Press

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• You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

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  Prayer, Eye, Done

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.215, NYU Press

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• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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  America, United States, States

  Leaves of Grass preface (1855)

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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.

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  Party, Flower, School

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

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• I tramp a perpetual journey.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Journey, Tramps

  Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.3, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

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  Men, Dumb, Tongue

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

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  Memories, Wreaths, Unions

  Walt Whitman (1990). “Memoranda During the War”, p.82, Applewood Books

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• If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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  Numbers, People, Personality

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

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  Ocean, Sleep, Storm

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.288, NYU Press

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• Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

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  Men, Hands, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, “To You”

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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.

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  Children, Revenge, Mean

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• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

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  Leaves Of Grass, Shows, Smallest

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.25, University of Iowa Press

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• Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

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  Leaves Of Grass, Democratic, Character Education

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Poems By Walt Whitman”, Walt Whitman

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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  Beauty, Nature, Morning

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

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• Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Contentment, Coffins

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.73

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• this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

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  Art, Stars, Book

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.204, Library of America

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• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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  College, America, People

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

  Walt Whitman

  Happy, Talking, Confusion

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

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