Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 4

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• All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Delivery, All Things

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.73, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Leaves Of Grass, Immortal

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.84, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Sea, Age, Aging

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• I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Money, Hands

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.238, NYU Press

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• To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Madness, Hours

  Walt Whitman (1947). “Leaves of Grass”

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• Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Limitless, Individual

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.174, NYU Press

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• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  Walt Whitman

  Leadership, Men, Example

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Thinking, Waiting

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.92, University of Iowa Press

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• I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Tamed, Bits

  "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)

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• I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Dark, Animal

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• A man can be a hero in any profession

  Walt Whitman

  Hero, Men, Profession

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• I hate commas in the wrong places.

  Walt Whitman

  Hate, Writing, I Hate

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• 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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• I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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  Hate, Medicine, Doctors

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

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• Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Affection, Problem

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.373, NYU Press

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• I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

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  Mistake, Usual, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.131, University of Iowa Press

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• When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

  Walt Whitman

  Architect, Ready, Materials

  "Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856".

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• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

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• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  Walt Whitman

  Karma, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.226, NYU Press

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• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

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  Real, Men, Thinking

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

  Walt Whitman

  Healthy, World, Road Trip

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

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• When I give, I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance, Helping Others, Giving

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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