Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 17

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• I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

  Walt Whitman

  Accomplished

  "Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass".

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• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, 4th Of July, Independence

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

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• Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

  Walt Whitman

  Agony, Garments

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.52, NYU Press

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• I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
  in any iota of the world;
  I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
  vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
  I have supposed.

  Walt Whitman

  Weed, Doubt, World

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.217

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• O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
  O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
  O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
  A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Land, Voice

  Walt Whitman (1871). “Leaves of Grass: Passage to India”, p.87

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• The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Want, Wells

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 8

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• The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Lace, Sleeves

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• Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Essence, Fruition

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

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• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Artist, Humanity

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.516, NYU Press

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• I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

  Walt Whitman

  Law, Evil, Action

  Walt Whitman, Christopher Castiglia, Glenn Hendler (2007). “Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times”, p.68, Duke University Press

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• I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

  Walt Whitman

  Wise, Children, Men

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Song of Myself”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Love Is, Long

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.511, NYU Press

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• This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

  Walt Whitman

  Dog, Snakes, Mouths

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.134, NYU Press

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• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Waiting, Short Death

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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• All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Singing, Oboes

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.90, NYU Press

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• The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

  Walt Whitman

  Missing, Fruition, Chance

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.137, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  Walt Whitman

  Teacher, Style, Honor

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Years, Hearing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

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• The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Majesty, Vacant

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

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• I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Argument, Witness

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.5, NYU Press

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• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Sun, Calm

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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• Ah little recks the laborer,
  How near his work is holding him to God,
  The loving Laborer through space and time

  Walt Whitman

  Space, Littles, Time And Space

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hug, Trying, Alarms

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Giving, Manhattan

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.280, St. Martin's Press

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• Strong and content I travel the open road.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Strong, Leaves Of Grass

  1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

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