Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 8

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• When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hands, Long, Identity

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.87, University of Iowa Press

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• And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Flesh, Fluency

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

  Walt Whitman

  Math, Leaves Of Grass, Bears

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• I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

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  Years, Waiting, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  Walt Whitman

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• I accept reality and dare not question it.

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  Reality, Accepting, Dare

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  Walt Whitman

  Aggravation, Community, Done

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

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  Soul, Should, Knows

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

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• From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

  Walt Whitman

  Hours, Masters, My Own

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• And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

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  Males, Female, Equal

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.283, NYU Press

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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  Grieving, Waiting, Missing

  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 am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Men, Poet

  Walt Whitman (1902). “The poems of Walt Whitman”, p.35, Рипол Классик

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• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Happiness, Art, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

  Walt Whitman

  Body, Doubted

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.243, Delphi Classics

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• I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

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  Dance, Believe, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.359, NYU Press

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• O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

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  Inspirational, Sad, Death

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

  Walt Whitman

  Prayer, Believe, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

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• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Dying, Looks

  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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• But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

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  Long Ago, Long

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

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  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

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  Sweet, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Light, Age

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• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Perfection, Earth

  1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

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• Oh captain my captain

  Walt Whitman

  Captains

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