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Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 8

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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

Years, Waiting, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

Soul, Should, Knows

Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Happiness, Art, Sunshine

Walt Whitman (2007). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.10, Courier Corporation

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Reality, Accepting, Dare

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Aggravation, Community, Done

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Grieving, Waiting, Missing

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

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Males, Female, Equal

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.283, NYU Press

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Softball, Sports, Baseball

But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

Long Ago, Long

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Dance, Believe, Men

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.359, NYU Press

When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

Hands, Long, Identity

Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.87, University of Iowa Press

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Sea, Age, Aging

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Death, Dying, Looks

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

I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

Prayer, Believe, Miracle

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

Inspirational, Sad, Death

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

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Nature, Travel, Flower

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

Heart, Perfection, Earth

1874 Leaves of Grass, 'Birds of Passage', 'Song of the Universal', Section 1.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Book, Light, Age

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

Ocean, Space, Detached

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.585, NYU Press

Oh captain my captain

Captains

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Beauty, Beautiful, Ornaments

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

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

Sweet, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Mouths, Tongue, Mines

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.52, Psychology Press

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

Refuse

Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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

Miracle, Leaves Of Grass, Enough

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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