Walt Whitman

Quotes

• “When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched...”
• “Native American literature should be important to Americans not as a curio, an artifact of the American past that has li...”
• “I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!" He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well - it's...”
• “With Whitman, the exhilarations are specifically aimed at the pioneer; I don't see any obstructions. I don't see the Ind...”
• “This has been widely attributed to Whitman, and no one else, but without definite source. It has sometimes been cited as...”
• “This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published wo...”
• “When Whitman in Song of Myself wrote "Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this touches a man, and "What I assume you ...”
• “O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those ...”
• “Anyone can visit Walt Whitman's birthing corner on/Long Island./The guide points and says, There, right there, he was/bo...”
• “In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngs...”
• “Walt was always working on the same book/First edition did not/have his name on cover/He reviewed himself in newspapers ...”
• “I read a lot. In poetry, I liked W. H. Auden more than anyone. I loved British writers and the novels I grew up with, Tw...”
• “Brian Cronin, in "Did 'Bull Durham' misquote Walt Whitman on baseball?", Los Angeles Times (28 March 2012), suggests tha...”
• “I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me,This is not my true country, I...”
• “I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life tha...”
• “I mean to carry on in the tradition of Walt Whitman. Whitman says, "I sing the body electric" and "I sing the body from ...”
• “I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical...”
• “While consistently attributed to Whitman, this popular motivational quote has no source. It is occasionally listed as oc...”
• “Yes, Mexico must be thoroughly chastised! Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, wh...”
• “Whitman's masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and f...”
• “Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But pr...”
• “Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,And the vast ...”
• “When I read the poetry of Walt Whitman, I could understand why he answered the question, "Do I contradict myself?" with ...”
• “Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;That the hands of the sisters Death and Ni...”
• “Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839); later delivered as a lecture at the Brooklyn Art Union (31 March 185...”
• “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality," letter to the Philadelphia Press (20 July 1883), later published in The Complet...”
• “I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there...”
• “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won,The port ...”
• “When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, an...”
• “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 ...”
• “Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) b...”
• “Now obey thy cherished secret wish,Embrace thy friends-leave all in order;To port and hawser's tie no more returning,Dep...”
• “Come lovely and soothing death,Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,In the day, in the night, to all, t...”
• “I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of ...”
• “Youth, large, lusty, loving-Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with e...”
• “H. P. Lovecraft, in an "Essay on Modern Poets" this was published as a "Fragment on Whitman" in The Ancient Track (2001)...”
• “Karel Appel, as quoted in 'Karel Appel - the complete sculptures', eds. Harry de Visser / Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafa...”
• “In this broad earth of ours,Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,Enclosed and safe within its central heart,Nestl...”
• “Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Imm...”
• “I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsical...”
• “Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War", The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman (1892), volume 1, part I: Spec...”
• “Whitman...a man full-blooded and brotherly, unselfconscious in his democracy and genuinely at ease with all kinds and cl...”
• “Karl Shapiro, in "Karl Shapiro, The Art of Poetry No. 36", interviewed by Robert Phillips in Paris Review No. 99 (Spring...”
• “Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. II”
• “Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV”
• “Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. I”
• “Rob Riemen, recalling a conversation with Joseph Goodman, Nobility of Spirit : A Forgotten Ideal (2008), p. xxvii”
• “Derek Walcott, 1990 interview collected in Conversations with Derek Walcott edited by William Baer (1996)”
• “I rank Muriel Rukeyser with Walt Whitman, the essential American poet, democratic at the level of hope.”
• “Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a letter to Whitman, thanking him for a copy of Leaves of Grass (21 July 1855)”