Top 100 Whitman's Quotes

#1. I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1338
#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

Whitman's Quotes #1918
#3. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson

Whitman's Quotes #2570
#4. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #2838
#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

Whitman's Quotes #4648
#6. Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #4782
#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

Whitman's Quotes #4968
#8. Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.

Criag Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #7385
#9. The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss ... it is inevitable as life.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #9467
#10. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #11799
#11. This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #11935
#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

Whitman's Quotes #13254
#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

Whitman's Quotes #15422
#14. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #16153
#15. I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #16190
#16. I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

George Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #17051
#17. Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. Let it be enough.

Emily Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #17220
#18. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #17654
#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

Whitman's Quotes #17755
#20. Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #20374
#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

Whitman's Quotes #22711
#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

Whitman's Quotes #24815
#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

Whitman's Quotes #25513
#24. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #26810
#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

Whitman's Quotes #27455
#26. 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

Whitman's Quotes #36184
#27. I love doing voice-over. It's one of my favorite things.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #45809
#28. 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

Whitman's Quotes #58519
#29. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #90445
#30. 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

Whitman's Quotes #110229
#31. 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

Whitman's Quotes #133106
#32. 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

Whitman's Quotes #154016
#33. 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

Whitman's Quotes #154872
#34. I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #160892
#35. Walt Whitman, who worked as a nurse in the hospital wards, that the harrowing experience made one's "little cares and difficulties" disappear "into nothing.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Whitman's Quotes #222597
#36. And he's supposed to be a marine biologist!

ALBERT WHITMAN

Whitman's Quotes #225308
#37. Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

David Lodge

Whitman's Quotes #263714
#38. It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

Slim Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #300595
#39. People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #397542
#40. I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name ...

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #400039
#41. 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

Whitman's Quotes #474074
#42. T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. I

Robin Rinaldi

Whitman's Quotes #474721
#43. But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #484402
#44. In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain
the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes.
You have used up the years and they have used up you,
and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Jorge Luis Borges

Whitman's Quotes #539819
#45. Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

Slim Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #599235
#46. It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #614380
#47. I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #614672
#48. There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

Anita Diament

Whitman's Quotes #619575
#49. 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

Whitman's Quotes #622192
#50. Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

John Dos Passos

Whitman's Quotes #674931
#51. Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.

Edward Abbey

Whitman's Quotes #689505
#52. Lo! body and soul!
this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,
the South And the North in the light
Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #707330
#53. It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

Whitman's Quotes #708962
#54. Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #744176
#55. It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.

Christine Todd Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #777584
#56. The other two guys sat down. "I'm Gavin Strick," the kid in the Anthrax T-shirt said. "This here's Edward Vaugh, but everyone calls him U.V."
"As in sunlight," U.V. said with a white-toothed grin. "'Cause I get so much of it.

John Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #779257
#57. I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

Sue Grafton

Whitman's Quotes #833792
#58. I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Whitman's Quotes #844902
#59. I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new work, we have Yeats and Shakespeare presenting new work. It's that level.

Benmont Tench

Whitman's Quotes #887324
#60. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #900776
#61. With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #926749
#62. An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #966038
#63. From imperfection's murkiest cloud,
Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
One flash of Heaven's glory."
-from "Song of the Universal

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #968471
#64. People have a hard time going to a club and seeing this business tool on stage that's wholly indicative of everything that rock is not. Rock is not about sitting in an office setting up documents, yet they see someone on stage doing that.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #975602
#65. Art is a luxury. It's not necessary for you to - you can work your job and you can make some money and never know who Walt Whitman was, and never read a poem.

Wynton Marsalis

Whitman's Quotes #980226
#66. A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #992985
#67. What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1036756
#68. The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry

Dermot McCabe

Whitman's Quotes #1099058
#69. It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1104534
#70. Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

Ray Bradbury

Whitman's Quotes #1118346
#71. In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1227748
#72. The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1260178
#73. Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

Hal Sparks

Whitman's Quotes #1281261
#74. Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

Maria Popova

Whitman's Quotes #1288537
#75. When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1324368
#76. She gave him books of poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, all the W's. When she'd ask him how he liked them, he would say, "Fine. I'm on page ... " and then he would tell her what page he was on and how many pages he'd accomplished that day.

Lorrie Moore

Whitman's Quotes #1352281
#77. I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1381405
#78. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Harold Bloom

Whitman's Quotes #1387467
#79. I've got a bunch of circuit-bent boxes and things that are controlled by my Mac through a big breakout box. I want to create this total environment where I can bring all this gear to the show but maybe just use one or two elements, if that's what's called for.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1391525
#80. INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

Ambrose Bierce

Whitman's Quotes #1392349
#81. This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1396704
#82. There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1398471
#83. I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1399952
#84. Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1419271
#85. So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

John O'Hara

Whitman's Quotes #1438030
#86. Such is a community
of inviolable immunity, protected
from tampering or harpooning
mutiny. Every better thinker's impulse
to shrink us (at the shoreline from our
lifeblood's deep pulse) uses disparaging
scrutiny to sink us.

Kristen Henderson

Whitman's Quotes #1497562
#87. I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

Mae Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1547570
#88. Whitman Press will publish three children's textbooks, based on your creed, for which you'll deliver manuscripts and artwork. The three books are: 1. Dagon and Jill 2. The Shadow Over Humpty Dumpty 3. A Children's Necronomicon (with pop-up section)

H.P. Lovecraft

Whitman's Quotes #1622531
#89. Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1681433
#90. Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1706192
#91. Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1712112
#92. All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

Walt Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1729853
#93. I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1736796
#94. Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Beaumont Newhall

Whitman's Quotes #1784070
#95. I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

Patti Smith

Whitman's Quotes #1791111
#96. The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite because that's where friends and family can be. That's where members of the military unit can gather.

Brian Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1798590
#97. One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer, ... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

Isaac Asimov

Whitman's Quotes #1800133
#98. I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1848699
#99. Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1867091
#100. Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

Whitman's Quotes #1868137

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