Walt Whitman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Worry, Waiting

• I hate commas in the wrong places.

  Walt Whitman

  Hate, Writing, I Hate

• The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Lace, Sleeves

• I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Friendship, Writing

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.278, NYU Press

• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Tools, Tribes

• My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

  Walt Whitman

  Reading, Writing, Iron

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

• My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

  Walt Whitman

  Notebook, Home, Writing

• 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

• By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Life Is, Heartbeat

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals, 1863-1865”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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