Walt Whitman Quotes About Exercise

Quotes about: Exercise

• I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

  Walt Whitman

  Exercise, Past, America

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

• Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Book, Reading

  Walt Whitman (1876). “Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed”

• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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