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Men Quotes by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman celebrates ordinary people, saying that even a simple man can be a hero in any profession. He contrasts the idea of liberty as a boundless release with the view that true freedom works like a powerful law, and he mixes old and young voices to show that all ages share the same human core.

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

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

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A man can be a hero in any profession

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Many a good man I have seen go under.

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Produce great men, the rest follows.

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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric…

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their…

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

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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded…

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The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close…

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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves -…

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I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal…

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Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and…

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There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon…

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Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part…

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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of…

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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history…

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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in…

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I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes…

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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women…

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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something…

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The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,…

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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you…

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“I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,…

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Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that…

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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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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the…

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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a…

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There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior…

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I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the…

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The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary,…

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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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Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me…

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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,…

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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that…

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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not…

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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to…

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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,…

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

“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…

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…

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

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

“it makes such difference where you read”

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…

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

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

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

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

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

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…