Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 5

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• Peace is always beautiful.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Peace, Healing

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

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• Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

  Walt Whitman

  Cities, Liberty, Earth

  Walt Whitman (1872). “Leaves of Grass”, p.369

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• It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Government, Office

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

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

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• The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Country, Men

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.169, Routledge

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• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.101, New York Review of Books

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

  Walt Whitman

  Lines, Limits, Hours

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

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• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, School, Eye

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

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• All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Action, Procession

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80

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• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

  Walt Whitman

  Deep Water, Soul, Risk

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Vices, World

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• I loafe and invite my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Invites, My Soul

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

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• Where the earth is, we are.

  Walt Whitman

  Environmental, Earth

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• I tramp a perpetual journey.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Journey, Tramps

  Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.3, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

  Walt Whitman

  Lost Love, Thinking, Lost

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• O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Lightning, Spirit

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.334, NYU Press

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• I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Sound, Leaves Of Grass, World

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

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• We convince by our presence.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Shows, Smallest

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.25, University of Iowa Press

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• Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Contentment, Coffins

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.73

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• Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, “To You”

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• this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Stars, Book

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.204, Library of America

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• There was never any more inception than there is now,
  Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfection, Heaven, Age

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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