Book Quotes by Walt Whitman

21 Book quotes by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s voice rings loudly even in his musings on books. Across twenty‑one lines he celebrates the democratic pulse of literature, the way a volume can echo the self, and the boundless energy he finds in pages.

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

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“The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.”

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Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Walt Whitman

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Walt Whitman

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

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“This is no book; Who touches this, touches a man; (Is it night? Are we here alone?) It is I you hold,…

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Walt Whitman

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and…

Walt Whitman

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Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul…

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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who…

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“Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book…

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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in…

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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession…

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this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the…

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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your…

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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of…

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“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author…

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“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in…

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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,…

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is…

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal…

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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I…

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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to…

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“it makes such difference where you read”

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of…

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.

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“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

Walt Whitman

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

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