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Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 10

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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

Different, Warning, Persons

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

Art, Expression, Simplicity

Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.115, Oxford University Press

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

Men, Suffering, He Man

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.137, Psychology Press

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

Thinking, Doubt, Enemy

storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

Night, Planning, Disappear

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.49, NYU Press

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

Children, Kissing, Men

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Perfect, May, Faults

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

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

History, Romance, Needs

1855 Leaves of Grass, preface.

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

War, Sadness, Eye

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Men, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd

I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.

Dream, Men, Cities

'I dreamed in a dream'

Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; So long!And I hope we shall meet again.

Kissing, Romantic Love, Giving

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.333, NYU Press

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

Believe, Unseen, Looks

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

Mother, Children, Sweat

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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?

Dead Poets Society, Cities, Leaves Of Grass

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

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Dream, Eye, Light

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.190, Psychology Press

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

Death, Brother, Unions

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.81, NYU Press

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Time, Dark, Past

1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

Average, People, Effort

Walt Whitman (1963). “Prose works 1892”

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

Travel, Strong, Criticism

1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

I know I am deathlessWe have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

Summer, Winter, Leaves Of Grass

Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I Casually met there who detained me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else Has long been forgotten by me, I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung To me, Again we wander, we love, we separate again, Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.

Night, Hands, Cities

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.220, St. Martin's Press

Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

Bird, Musical, Cradle

"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" l. 1 (1881)

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

Life, Women, Cities

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

I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Army, Soul, Body

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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