Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green."
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"I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of perfect personal candor… . How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear—it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night!Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!from Strophe 21, "Song of Myself"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"When I Read the Book"When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught of my life,Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"O you youths, Western youths,So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,Pioneers! O pioneers!"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,High in the purer, happier air."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"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, Leaves of Grass
"I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Or may-be one who is puzzled at me. As if I were not puzzled at myself!"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day 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
"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them"
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you..."
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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