Leaves Of Grass Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  Walt Whitman

  Sympathy, Funeral, Walks

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.41, Wildside Press LLC

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Dying, Boots, Hats

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

  John Green

  Crazy, Moving, Games

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.258, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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)

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Literature

  12 Copy quote

• Are you the new person drawn toward me?

  Walt Whitman

  Persons

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.382, NYU Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Six Feet Under

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Battle

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Sky, Sake

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.279, NYU Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• O amazement of things-even the least particle!

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Amazement, Particles

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

  Walt Whitman

  Drinking, Son, Men

  "Song of Myself " l. 497 (written 1855)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

  Walt Whitman

  Lucky, Born, Knows

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 7

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Body

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source