Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 14

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• I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Yoga, Mean

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

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  Life, Long, Joy

  Walt Whitman, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!”

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• But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

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  People, Sin, Ill

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.410, Penguin

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• I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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  Professors, Capitalist

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

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  Reading, Book, Men

  'So Long!'

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• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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  Stars, Spring, Night

  "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" l. 1 (1881)

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• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

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  Waiting, Needs, Bigs

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.99, University of Iowa Press

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• To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

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  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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• Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

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  Love, Pay, Way

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• There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

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  Laughing, Vacuums, Flaws

  Walt Whitman (1995). “The Works of Walt Whitman”, p.428, Wordsworth Editions

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• I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."

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  Death, Country, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.125, St. Martin's Press

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• There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

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  Earth, Theory, Accounts

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

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  Everyday, Dozen, Walt

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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  Change, Racist, Fool

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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• Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

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  Liberty

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.171

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• I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

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  Self, Soul, Body

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

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• In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

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  People, Empathy

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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

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  Stars, Sky, Sake

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

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• O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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  Land, Dear

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

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  Country, Song, Husband

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.20, NYU Press

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• All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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  Strong, Past, Pioneers

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.475, NYU Press

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• For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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  Expression, Purpose, Messages

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.716, NYU Press

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

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  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

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  New York, Ideas, Profound

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