Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 9

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• Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Night, Long

  Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.229, Counterpoint Press

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• I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Simple Life

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXIV”

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• All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

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  Looks, Architecture, Look Up

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

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  World, Chaste, Steady

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.324, NYU Press

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• O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

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  Inspirational, Sad, Death

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Spring, Night

  "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" l. 1 (1881)

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• I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

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  Acceptance, Peaceful, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.26, NYU Press

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• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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  Aggravation, Community, Done

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Long and long has the grass been growing,
  Long and long has the rain been falling,
  Long has the globe been rolling round.

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  Life, Rain, Fall

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

  Walt Whitman

  Space, East, West

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

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• I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

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  Men, Suffering, He Man

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.137, Psychology Press

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• O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

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  Air, Space, Lasts

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

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  Sweet, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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  Grieving, Waiting, Missing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

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  Night, Planning, Disappear

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.49, NYU Press

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• The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

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  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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• Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

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  Ocean, Space, Detached

  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.585, NYU Press

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• Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

  Walt Whitman

  Liberty

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.171

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

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

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• I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

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  Dance, Believe, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.359, NYU Press

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• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Dying, Looks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

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  Mean, Who I Am, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC

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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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  Tree, Walks, Walking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.231, NYU Press

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• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Leaves Of Grass, Poet

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.34, University of Iowa Press

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• I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

  Walt Whitman

  Self, Body, Celebrate

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