Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 9

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

  Walt Whitman

  Ocean, Space, Detached

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.585, NYU Press

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• I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

  Walt Whitman

  Mouths, Tongue, Mines

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  Walt Whitman

  Tree, Walks, Walking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.231, NYU Press

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• I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Simple Life

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXIV”

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• I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

  Walt Whitman

  Refuse

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Leaves Of Grass, Poet

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.34, University of Iowa Press

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Leaves Of Grass, Enough

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.41, NYU Press

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• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Freedom Of Speech, Library

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

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• The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
  And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
  The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
  And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

  Walt Whitman

  Unrequited Love, Sleep, Males

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.110, NYU Press

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• Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

  Walt Whitman

  Freedom, Journey, Hiking

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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• I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Healing, Dead Poets Society, Teens

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, I, II, VI & LII”

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

  Walt Whitman

  Hands, Body, Not Afraid

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.16, Library of America

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• The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Judging, Judgement

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• I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Hats, Please

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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• My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

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  Battle, Revolution, Rebellion

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.148, St. Martin's Press

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• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Humor, Sticks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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• I am large, I contain multitudes

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  Stewardship, Multitudes

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Good Day, Battle

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

  Walt Whitman

  Reading, Writing, Iron

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

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• Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

  Walt Whitman

  Voice, Want, Lectures

  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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• To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Animal, Perfect

  Walt Whitman (1949). “The poetry and prose”

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