Leaves Of Grass Quotes - Page 3

• Strong and content I travel the open road.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Strong, Open Road

  1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

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• I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Divine

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, 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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• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

  Walt Whitman

  Wisdom, School, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Feelings, Aroma

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.33, NYU Press

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

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Satisfied

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

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• The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Home, Literature

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3129, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.

  Karel Appel

  Ocean, Book, Space

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Stars, Believe

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

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• I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.

  John Green

  Roots, Broken, Guy

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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.

  Walt Whitman

  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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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Blood

  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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• The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.456, NYU Press

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Humble, Illiterate Person

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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

  Walt Whitman

  Aggravation, Community, Done

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

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• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Cities, World

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

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• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

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• The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Hair, Graves

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6

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• And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Dimes, Earth, May

  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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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

  Individual, Theory, Whole

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.206, NYU 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, World, Roof

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

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• I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

  Walt Whitman

  Empathy, Feels, Wounded

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.110, Psychology Press

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

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Soul, Clear

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

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