Walt Whitman Quotes

• When I give, I give myself.

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• No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance.

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• Have you not learn great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

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• In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.

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• Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplies a training-school for making first-class men. It is life’s gymnasium, not of good only, but of all.

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• The Past – the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf – the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

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• Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.

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• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom, And the great star early droop in the western sky in the night, I mourn, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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• O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.

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• Camarado, this is no book, Who touches this touches a man.

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• I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions, But really I am neither for nor against institutions.

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• He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

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• What can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemmed Manhattan?

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• Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

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• I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

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• If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

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• How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

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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.

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• 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.

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• I think I could turn, and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain.

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Walt Whitman (117)

Birth:	31st May, 1819
Death:	26th March, 1892
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Humanist, Journalist, Poet

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