Walt Whitman quotes - page 5

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. (Walt Whitman)
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch)... View quote
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Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same. View quote
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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. View quote
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In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing "base", a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious. View quote
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I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well - it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere - belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life." View quote
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed. View quote
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Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. View quote
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. View quote
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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. View quote
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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. (Walt Whitman)
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. View quote
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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you. View quote
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Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. View quote
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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. View quote
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. View quote
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Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. View quote
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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. View quote
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Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be. View quote
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. View quote
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. (Walt Whitman)
Resist much, obey little. View quote
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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. View quote
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I tramp a perpetual journey. View quote
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I Think it is lost..... but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost. The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again. View quote
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