Best Walt Whitman Lines
- Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns. Accident
- Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature. Ease
- The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do… Alert
- I am not contain'd between my hat and boots. Boots
- I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for. Find
- Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose. Begin
- Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Day
- Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams. All
- Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me. All
- Either define the moment or the moment will define you. Define
- Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan! Give
- A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking. All
- Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness. Action
- Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; All
- I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death. Death
- That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. Death
- Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later,… All
- I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And… Affectionate
- I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished… Banished
- The work for giants...to serve well the guns! Artillery
- Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading… All
- There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take… Arise
- Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then… Ah
- And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I… Alarm
- Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants… Blood
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