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  • Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

    Wisdom   School   Soul  
    Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation
  • Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

  • I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  • NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

    Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.45, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Do anything, but let it produce joy.

    Life   Carpe Diem   Joy  
  • The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

    Walt Whitman (2016). “Poems by Walt Whitman”, p.74, Read Books Ltd
  • These are the days that must happen to you.

    Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Courier Corporation
  • You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

    Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.43, Wildside Press LLC
  • Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

    'Reconciliation'
  • O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

    Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing
  • Remarkably, there's no green screen in 'Leaves of Grass' movie. There is motion control. Technically, there were all sorts of challenges, but really the soul of it is Edward Norton talent. You write these characters when you write a movie, and all you can hope for or depend on is that your actors will elevate the material.

  • Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

    Spiritual   Truth   Soul  
    Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press
  • Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

    Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press
  • To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

    Death   Dying   Different  
    1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.
  • What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

    Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.30, University of Iowa Press
  • Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

    Country   Art   Important  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

    Fall   Good Day   Battle  
    'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18
  • I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

    "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)
  • Are you the new person drawn toward me?

    Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.382, NYU Press
  • There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

    Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.221, University of Iowa Press
  • The future is no more uncertain than the present.

    Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
  • I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press
  • O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

    Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14
  • A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

    Nature   Children   Hands  
    'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6
  • I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

    Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.278, NYU Press
  • Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

    Dream   Eye   Light  
    Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.190, Psychology Press
  • O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

    "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)
  • I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don't ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

    Self   Looks   Stories  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

    Life   Women   Cities  
    Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
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