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Walt Whitman

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.
MATTHEW PRIOR But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged th...
JOHN UPDIKE But within a few minutes, he walks out on his balcony, which faces Greenwood, walks to the railing a...
RICH PRUITT In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his...
OCTAVIO PAZ But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
KAHLIL GIBRAN But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer c...
PAT CONROY It's his demeanor, how he walks, that confident strut.
JAMES POSEY What would Walt Whitman do?
GARTH RISK HALLBERG The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
MALCOLM DE CHAZAL If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PLATO If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life
PLATO He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON When people once are in the wrong, Each line they add is much too long; Who fastest walks, but...
MATTHEW PRIOR A father in a canoe in which his baby is seated walks more carefully than on land.
O ANNA NIEMUS I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
MARY MACLANE He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
JOHN MILTON A friend walks in when everyone else walks out
SOURCE UNKNOWN A man who does good works without Jesus Christ is like a man who takes his hard earned money to the ...
PAUL BAMIKOLE A true friend walks in when the world walks out.
UNKNOWN He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But...
JOHN MILTON Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the ...
MORRIS WEST Now, when a customer walks into a store, we can identify him, pull up his record and see what his si...
COO DENNIS HERNREICH Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stair...
JOHN STEINBECK It's a combined debacle between how quickly we can find who put anthrax in the mail and how quickly ...
IVAN WALKS I want to emphasize as strongly as I can: Anyone who was working in that back postal area during the...
IVAN WALKS We have not put this many people on this number of concentrated antibiotics, if ever, in certainly a...
IVAN WALKS Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST But here I am blocking the view of this simple scene, like a director who accidentally walks in fron...
DENNIS COOPER It was someone from [Walt] Whitman ? I don't recall who.
DON STRASSER Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up th...
JOHN STEINBECK Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up th...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly...
JOHN SINGLETON He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
ANONYMOUS What a win. He got stopped in his tracks at the furlong and looked no hope.
ALAN BAILEY Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
CHRISTOPHER SMART He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
DEREK LANDY Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictio...
DAVID LODGE The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in th...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, a...
G. K. CHESTERTON 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
ANON. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
WALTER WINCHELL A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
WALTER WINCHELL A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
ANONYMOUS I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who p...
HARRY KEMP So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpl...
JOHN O'HARA We worry about terrorists in our country. The bullied child walks into school every day knowing his ...
JOEY THOMAS One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at leas...
JOHAN CRUYFF His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
"Go to hell."
He works his jaw. Walks to t...
TAHEREH MAFI I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
WADE BOGGS The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN I know O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself. That is not in a man who walks to direct his step...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to spea...
AYN RAND My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman.
STEVE FORBERT Whoever digs a pit for his neighbor should dig it his own size.
TURKISH PROVERB One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself...
GEORG GRODDECK Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to al...
ELLA R. BLOOR He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poetry. I read Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Jane Hirschfield. I like to read Billy Collins out...
AMY TAN Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by i...
HORACE MANN They are for religion when in rags and contempt, but I am for him when he walks in his golden slippe...
JOHN BUNYAN You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the...
MORRIS WEST Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
WALT WHITMAN I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
PENELOPE DOUGLAS In one instant and his life was changed forever. Because of that research I got to hold in my hand a...
DON REED She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
JOHN GREEN Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat; White are his shoulders...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT He walks through the house of his past, hoping he'll find the right door, hoping he'll find the key.
STEVEN HERRICK Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of ...
DAVID LODGE A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
BIBLE A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
BIBLE I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
WADE BOGGS They're really the best of the best of all three sports. Whoever takes home the Best in Show award w...
DAISY OKAS If it's a beautiful day, I love taking walks. The walks are always aimless.
PETE HAMILL Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
GEORG BUCHNER In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.
JIM HARRISON Veblen was a great advocate of getting together informally. His teas were in the same spirit. He bel...
ALONZO CHURCH All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on...
ETHEL LYNN BEERS (ETHELINDA ELIOT) She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if ...
JACKIE KAY Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seekin...
LANGSTON HUGHES I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's li...
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Whoever contends with the great sheds his own blood
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to...
JOHN MILTON We had eight walks. Five of them scored. Walks beat you. Eventually you have to learn from it.
JOE GIRARDI I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy ...
JOHN LASSETER The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pl...
ROBERT LITTELL A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirri...
PETER MARSHALL Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who ...
A.J. DARKHOLME Augustus Waters talked so much that he’d interrupt you at his own funeral.
JOHN GREEN Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.
JOHN GREEN

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WALT WHITMAN Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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WALT WHITMAN Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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And my heart, O my ...
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WALT WHITMAN I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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WALT WHITMAN How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
WALT WHITMAN I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself ...
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WALT WHITMAN Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head...
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Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe wi...
WALT WHITMAN Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night...
WALT WHITMAN O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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The arriving...
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WALT WHITMAN I accept reality and dare not question it.
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WALT WHITMAN I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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WALT WHITMAN Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying ...
WALT WHITMAN The butcher in his killing clothes.
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WALT WHITMAN The real war will never get in the books.
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WALT WHITMAN If you done it, it ain't bragging.
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WALT WHITMAN He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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WALT WHITMAN I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
WALT WHITMAN When I give I give myself.
WALT WHITMAN Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
WALT WHITMAN Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
WALT WHITMAN We convince by our presence.
WALT WHITMAN The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
WALT WHITMAN To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
WALT WHITMAN Be curious, not judgmental.
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WALT WHITMAN A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child...
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And you must not be abas...
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WALT WHITMAN He is a type of our best ...
WALT WHITMAN I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
WALT WHITMAN I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems bea...
WALT WHITMAN O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless�...
WALT WHITMAN The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
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WALT WHITMAN I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
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WALT WHITMAN Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat...
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WALT WHITMAN Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
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WALT WHITMAN I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triu...
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitude...
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WALT WHITMAN The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
WALT WHITMAN Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots,...
WALT WHITMAN There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
WALT WHITMAN I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms
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WALT WHITMAN He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes be...
WALT WHITMAN If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
WALT WHITMAN Oh captain my captain
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WALT WHITMAN I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and loo...
WALT WHITMAN We were together. I forget the rest.
WALT WHITMAN Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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WALT WHITMAN When I give, I give myself
WALT WHITMAN Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
WALT WHITMAN I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful...
WALT WHITMAN Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
WALT WHITMAN If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
WALT WHITMAN Peace is always beautiful.
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If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
WALT WHITMAN I am large, I contain multitudes
WALT WHITMAN Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
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WALT WHITMAN Many a good man I have seen go under.
WALT WHITMAN These are the days that must happen to you.
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WALT WHITMAN Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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WALT WHITMAN The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me...
WALT WHITMAN