Music Quotes by Walt Whitman

19 Music quotes by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s love for music bursts across these nineteen passages, each echoing his belief in the universal chorus of humanity. The verses feel like a celebration of sound as a shared heartbeat.

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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

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Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

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The strongest and sweetest song remains to be sung

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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,…

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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture,…

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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“Songs of myself Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one…

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“All music is what awakes within us when we are reminded by the instruments; It is not the violins or the clarinets…

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My own songs awakened from that hour, And with them the key, the word up from the waves, The word of the…

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With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches…

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Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets,…

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“Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you,…

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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it…

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“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am…

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“Song of myself With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only,…

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“Demon or bird! (said the boy’s soul,) Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it mostly to me? For…

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“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and…

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“Song of myself Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute…

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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…

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