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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became...

Firsts Quotes

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

Book Quotes Reading Quotes

Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Book Quotes Reading Quotes

Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Book Quotes

My respiration and inspiration... the beating of my heart... the passing of blood and air through my lungs, the sniff of green leaves and dry leaves and of the short and dark colored sea-rocks and of hay in the barn... the delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hillsides, the feeling of health... the full moon trill... the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.

No specification is necessary – to add or subtract or divide is in vain. Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration down the windpipe to the last expiration out of it, all that a male or female does that is vigorous and benevolent and clean is so much sure profit to him or her in the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it for ever.

Stout as a horse.

However convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain here.

After all, the great lesson is that no special natural sights – not Alps, Niagara, Yosemite or anything else – is more grand or more beautiful than the ordinary sunrise and sunset, earth and sky, the common trees and grass.

But a cluster containing night’s darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

Have you ever thought how much is in the negative quality of nature – the negative – the simply loafing, doing nothing, worrying about nothing, living out of doors and getting fresh air, plenty of sleep – letting everything else take care of itself?

I dance with the dancers.

The present now and here, America’s busy, teeming, intricate whirl, Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing, To-day’s eidolons.

The poet is individual – he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.

The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.

Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.

The only purport of the form thou art, the real I myself, An image, an eidolon.

I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons – the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.

Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy’d satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

Poetic style, when address’d to the Soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture, and becomes vista, music, half-tints, and even less than half- tints. True, it may be architecture; but again it may be the forest wild-wood, or the best effects thereof, at twilight, the waving oaks and cedars in the wind, and the impalpable odor.

The chief trait of any given poet is always the spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature – the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects.

I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me, In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me, In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me.

Under the specious pretext of effecting ‘the happiness of the whole community,’ nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

Sun so generous it shall be you- Leaves of Grass.

Great is life... and real and mystical... wherever and whoever, Great is death... Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together; Sure as the stars return again after they merge on the light, death is as great as life.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

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. We try often, though we fall back often. A brave delight, fit for freedom’s athletes, fills these arenas, and fully satisfies, out of the action in them, irrespective of success.

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland – I mark the long winters and the isolation.

I do not call one greater and one smaller, that which fills it period and place is equal to any.

The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don’t know which Walt Whitman I am.

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat;.

The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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.

People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Real Quotes

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

Romance Quotes

A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning.

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