Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 7

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• The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.115, NYU Press

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• Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.435, NYU Press

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• And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Body, Ifs

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.118, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

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  Time, Men, Thinking

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Autumn Rivulets', 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?'

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

  Walt Whitman

  Greatness, Men, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.161, NYU Press

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• A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

  Walt Whitman

  Women, Waiting, Wait For Me

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

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• I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

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  Beautiful, Sea, Breathing

  Walt Whitman (2017). “Leaves of Grass”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

  Walt Whitman

  Spring, Feet, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

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  Looks, Architecture, Look Up

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.49, Oxford University Press

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• Long and long has the grass been growing,
  Long and long has the rain been falling,
  Long has the globe been rolling round.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Rain, Fall

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

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Dying, Different

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.

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• Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ornaments

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC

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• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  Walt Whitman

  College, America, People

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

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  Race, Making Love, Insulting

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.752, NYU Press

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• To behold the day-break!
  The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  The air tastes good to my palate.

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  Light, Air, Shadow

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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  Equality, Rights, Giving

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.425, NYU Press

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• I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

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  Self, Body, Celebrate

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• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

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  Looks, Want, Dirt

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

  Walt Whitman

  Space, East, West

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

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• There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

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  Divine, There Is No God

  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 United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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  America, United States, States

  Leaves of Grass preface (1855)

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• Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Night, Long

  Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.229, Counterpoint Press

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• The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Moon, Light

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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