Top 26 Leaves Of Grass By Walt Whitman Quotes
#1. I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don't ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#2. It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#3. If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.
N. T. Wright
#4. Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.
Bianca Frazier
#5. I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.
Lesley Gore
#6. Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
Walt Whitman
#7. Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.
Mark Haddon
#8. Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers
and dreams and gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.
Walt Whitman
#9. One world is aware, and by 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. WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#10. Sun so generous it shall be you- Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
#11. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
Walt Whitman
#12. I situate myself, and seat myself,
And where you recline I shall recline,
For every armchair belonging to you as good as belongs to me.
I loaf and curl up my tail
I yawn and loaf at my ease after rolling in the catnip patch.
(From Meow of Myself, from LEAVES OF CATNIP)
Henry N. Beard
#13. I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
Walt Whitman
#14. A polarizing mission statement forces the reader to choose between two sides of a line drawn in the sand. Rare is the business owner who has the courage to craft such a statement.
Roy H. Williams
#15. I know I am deathless...We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
Walt Whitman
#16. And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
Walt Whitman
#17. Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
Walt Whitman
#18. And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
Walt Whitman
#19. O amazement of things-even the least particle!
Walt Whitman
#20. The minute I leave my house - that is where I feel safe - I'm immediately in the jungle. The key is to survive through the cold world.
DJ Khaled
#21. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.
Wynton Marsalis
#22. I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real
When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal
The Notorious B.I.G.
#24. The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
Walt Whitman
#25. I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Eugene Ionesco
#26. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
Walt Whitman
