Top 100 Quotes About Whitman
#1. I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy
Walt Whitman
#2. After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without the comfort of family or friends, Whitman wrote, nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#4. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
#5. What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren't alive.
Walt Whitman
#7. I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#8. Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.
Criag Whitman
#9. The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss ... it is inevitable as life.
Walt Whitman
#10. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...
Walt Whitman
#11. This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
Walt Whitman
#12. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#13. We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in love? Isn't that the most amazing thing we can do?
Walt Whitman
#14. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
#15. I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Walt Whitman
#16. I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
George Whitman
#17. Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. Let it be enough.
Emily Whitman
#18. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman
#19. 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.
Walt Whitman
#20. Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
Walt Whitman
#21. Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines.
Edgar Lee Masters
#22. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
Sarah Helen Whitman
#23. Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
Walt Whitman
#24. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Walt Whitman
#25. It is that something in the soul which says, - Rage on, whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of all terror and all pain.
Walt Whitman
#26. 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.
Walt Whitman
#27. You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
Walt Whitman
#28. Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their law was a law of covert devices and legal subterfuges. American law, as Krieger wrote, was a law of Umwege, devious legal pathways.
James Q. Whitman
#29. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
#30. TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
Walt Whitman
#31. To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
Walt Whitman
#32. So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Walt Whitman
#33. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman
#34. I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.
Mae Whitman
#36. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman
#37. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
Walt Whitman
#38. I kind of dress like a boy from the nineties. I like wearing baseball hats. I just like to be really comfortable.
Mae Whitman
#39. But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?
Walt Whitman
#40. I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
Walt Whitman
#41. 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
Robert Gottlieb
#42. Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
Walt Whitman
#43. I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
Walt Whitman
#44. I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened.
Walt Whitman
#45. Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.
As if I were not puzzled at myself!
Walt Whitman
#46. You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue
Donika Kelly
#47. To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
#48. To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
Walt Whitman
#49. When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
Meg Whitman
#50. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
Walt Whitman
#51. My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
Marilynne Robinson
#53. O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
Walt Whitman
#54. Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman
#55. The service members don't ask much of us. They ask to be well trained. They ask to be well equipped and they ask to be well led. And if something should happen to them, they ask that we take care of their families.
Brian Whitman
#56. The two authors she brought with her from that period of reading were Whitman and Thoreau - but then, she had been reading them for years, as some people read the Bible.
Doris Lessing
#57. Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry,
Walt Whitman
#58. The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.
Sarah Helen Whitman
#59. Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together.
Walt Whitman
#60. My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed ... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.
Walt Whitman
#61. I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
Walt Whitman
#62. Be composed
be at ease with me
I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
Walt Whitman
#63. Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok
Walt Whitman
#65. I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.
A.S. King
#66. All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Walt Whitman
#67. The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.
Slim Whitman
#68. The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
Walt Whitman
#69. And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman
#70. Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.
Walt Whitman
#71. Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
Walt Whitman
#72. There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
Walt Whitman
#73. Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman
Jed McKenna
#74. Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
#75. Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.
Martin J. Whitman
#76. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico ... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
Walt Whitman
#77. Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
Walt Whitman
#78. And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
Meg Whitman
#79. Of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
Walt Whitman
#80. Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;
Walt Whitman
#81. There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
Walt Whitman
#82. Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you ...
Walt Whitman
#83. I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman
#85. I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
#87. Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Walt Whitman
#88. Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.
Walt Whitman
#89. A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
Walt Whitman
#90. I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
#91. I'd like the people to remember me as having a good voice and a clean suit.
Slim Whitman
#92. The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
Walt Whitman
#93. The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Walt Whitman
#94. Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Walt Whitman
#95. My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them
Walt Whitman
#96. Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, but you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
Walt Whitman
#97. It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
Walt Whitman
#98. What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
Walt Whitman
#99. To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
#100. Great is life ... and real and mystical ... wherever and whoever, Great is death ... Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together; Sure as the stars return again after they merge on the light, death is as great as life.
Walt Whitman
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