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Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 16

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The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem,

The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

Struggle, Reading, Sleep

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

Life, Knowledge, Joy

'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' st. 14

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Race, Mexico, Noble

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

Doors, Library, Leaves Of Grass

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

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.

School, Reality, Sight

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

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Love, Peace, Brother

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

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

Art, Men, Thinking

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.225, NYU Press

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.

Rocks, Purpose, Months

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.24, NYU Press

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

Men, Names, Glasses

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.63, St. Martin's Press

Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

Long, Acres, Earth

Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

Might, Hours

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

Are you the new person drawn toward me?

Leaves Of Grass, Persons

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.382, NYU Press

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Air, Miracle, Age

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

Race, Pioneers, Bears

"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" l. 6 (1881)

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

Quality, Individual, Superb

Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”

A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

Past, Years, Sky

Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Cities, Citizens, Interest

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.228, Delphi Classics

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

Voice, Speech, Speak

Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.240

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

Accomplished

"Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass".

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

Agony, Garments

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.52, NYU Press

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Beauty, 4th Of July, Independence

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

I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than I have supposed.

Weed, Doubt, World

Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.217

O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.

Summer, Land, Voice

Walt Whitman (1871). “Leaves of Grass: Passage to India”, p.87

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

Earth, Want, Wells

'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 8

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

Writing, Lace, Sleeves

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