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Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 15

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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Dimes, Leaves Of Grass, Earth

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.79, NYU Press

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

America, Singing, Carols

"I Hear America Singing" l. 1 (1867)

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Exercise, Past, America

Walt Whitman (2015). “Complete Prose Works”, p.515, Walt Whitman

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

Death, Night, Hands

'Reconciliation'

When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

Men, Dumb, Tongue

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Science, Leaves Of Grass, Amazement

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

Horse, Mystery, Stout

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

Air, Space, Lasts

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

Memories, Wreaths, Unions

Walt Whitman (1990). “Memoranda During the War”, p.82, Applewood Books

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Men, Government, Despotism

Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.330, Courier Corporation

Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

Writing, Tools, Tribes

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Men, Dust, Hands

'This dust was once the man'

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.

Mother, Men, Poet

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

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.

Beautiful, Adversity, Imperfection

Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.15, University of Iowa Press

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Art, School, Past

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.365, NYU Press

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Leaves Of Grass, Democratic, Character Education

Walt Whitman (2015). “Poems By Walt Whitman”, Walt Whitman

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Forever, Vision, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

Encouragement, Art, Science

Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.46

Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Struggle, Book, Reading

Walt Whitman (1876). “Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed”

I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.450, NYU Press

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Numbers, People, Personality

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

War, Blood, History

Walt Whitman (1995). “Specimen Days: & Collect”, p.314, Courier Corporation

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

Men, Eccentric, Sanity

Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.5, Oxford University Press

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

Sorry, Blessed, Return

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

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

Nature, Ease, Standing

'Me imperturbe'

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