Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 12

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• O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Night, Self

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Song of Myself: The First Edition of 1855 + The Death Bed Edition of 1892”, p.188, e-artnow

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• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Flower, Color

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.236, St. Martin's Press

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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  Hero, Men, May

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

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• O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Struggle, Gun

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

  Walt Whitman

  War, Ems, Saws

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• Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

  Walt Whitman

  Hair, Sea, Long

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.76, NYU Press

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• I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Long, Sound

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.37, St. Martin's Press

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• I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Doe, Deeds

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.480, Melville House

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• Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  Smile, for your lover comes!

  Walt Whitman

  Sunset, Dark, Moon

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.42, Routledge

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• There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Pride, Men

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• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Communication, Race, Growth

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.557, Penguin

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• Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

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  Shade, My Thoughts, Lasting

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.407, NYU Press

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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.

  Walt Whitman

  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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• I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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  Leadership, Men, Years

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.417, Melville House

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• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

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  Land, Class, America

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

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• You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

  Walt Whitman

  Bending, Sides, Necks

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80, Bantam Classics

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• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

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  Real, Sleep, Historical

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.393, NYU Press

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• Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Death, Memories

  Walt Whitman (2016). “The Patriotic Poems”, p.72, Walt Whitman

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• The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

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  Men, Stronger, Wealth

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Garden, Broken

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Slave

  Walt Whitman, “Poem Of Joys”

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• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Through My Eyes, Spectre

  "Song of Myself " l. 33 (written 1855)

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• 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

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• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Faith, Names

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.170, University of Iowa Press

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