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Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 7

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

Self, Body, Celebrate

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

Life, Stars, Moon

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.643, NYU Press

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Time, Men, Thinking

1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Autumn Rivulets', 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?'

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

Hate, Medicine, Doctors

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

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Happy, Talking, Confusion

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

Women, Waiting, Wait For Me

Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

I loafe and invite my soul.

Soul, Invites, My Soul

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

College, America, People

Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

Space, East, West

Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Equality, Rights, Giving

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.425, NYU Press

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

Looks, Want, Dirt

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

Math, Leaves Of Grass, Bears

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

Dark, Contentment, Coffins

Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.73

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

Divine, There Is No God

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

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

America, United States, States

Leaves of Grass preface (1855)

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

Stars, Leaves Of Grass, Immortal

Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.84, Haskell House Pub Limited

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

Love, Night, Long

Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.229, Counterpoint Press

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

Body, Doubted

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.243, Delphi Classics

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

Thinking, Fire, Flames

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Greatness, Men, Earth

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.161, NYU Press

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

Hours, Masters, My Own

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

Heart, Moon, Light

Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.21, Courier Corporation

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Leaves Of Grass, Flesh, Fluency

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Nature, Sleep, Air

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

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