Top 32 Walt Whitman Leaves Of Grass Quotes
#1. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
Walt Whitman
#3. 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
#4. When we give it all, we can live with ourselves - regardless of the results.
Zig Ziglar
#5. But all fires, of wood or grief, burn down to ashes eventually.
Robin Hobb
#6. Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. O amazement of things-even the least particle!
Walt Whitman
#10. I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.
Princess Diana
#11. Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
Roger Corman
#12. And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
Walt Whitman
#13. Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#14. Interviewer: Did you hear t.A.T.u's version of 'How Soon Is Now'?
Morrissey: Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
Interviewer: They're the teenage Russian lesbians.
Morrissey: Well, aren't we all?
Morrissey
#15. Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
Walt Whitman
#16. And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
Walt Whitman
#17. I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
Agnes Varda
#18. I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
Kenneth Lonergan
#19. 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
#20. No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).
J.M. Coetzee
#21. It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#22. What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
David Whyte
#23. Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.
Dylan Thomas
#24. I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
Walt Whitman
#25. 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
#26. A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.
Craig Newmark
#27. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
Walt Whitman
#28. Sun so generous it shall be you- Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I try to use all aspects of media and my gifting and calling to help as many people as I can.
DeVon Franklin
#32. Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
Walt Whitman
