Leaves Of Grass Quotes - Page 5

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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

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• I've never acted before in a movie I've directed. This felt like the time to do it just because the " Leaves of Grass" movie itself is so much of a platform for the lead actor. It's really written for an exciting performance and it really depends on the audience watching an extraordinary actor having a great time pulling off this feat. It makes sense to me as a director to act in support of that.

  Edward Norton

  Support, Actors, Directors

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• Nothing endures but personal qualities.

  Walt Whitman

  Personal Qualities, Quality, Endurance

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

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• What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

  Edward Norton

  Ambition, Character, Balance

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• Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really easy to write and an utter delight to get to direct because I had people like Edward [Norton] elevating the material and surprising me in their interpretations of all of this stuff that's so close to me.

  Edward Norton

  Children, Writing, Two

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• Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Art, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Women, Cities

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

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• Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Illustration, Hands

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• Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Reality, Sight

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

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• That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Night, Hands

  'Reconciliation'

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• O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

  Walt Whitman

  Sailing, Done, Captains

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

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• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

  Walt Whitman

  Dead Poets Society, Cities, Foolish

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

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• I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Friendship, Writing

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.278, NYU Press

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• Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

  Walt Whitman

  Doors, Library, Proud

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.456, NYU Press

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• Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spring, Book, Night

  'So Long!'

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• I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Winter, Exhausted

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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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• It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Grass, Walt, Discredit

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.44

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• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

  Walt Whitman

  Shows, Smallest, Sprouts

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

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• Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Space, Miracle, Hanukkah

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.256, NYU Press

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• I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job is, he's very sensitive to that. We actually ended up finishing "Leaves of Grass" a day early.

  Edward Norton

  Jobs, Appreciate, Finishing

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• Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Writing, Challenges

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• Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

  Edward Norton

  Heart, Disbelief, Whole

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

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Enough, Mice

  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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• Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, War, Deeds

  'Reconciliation'

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