Best Walt Whitman Thoughts
- A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came… Bark
- Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,… All
- Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I… Affectionate
- Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms! Arms
- Most works are most beautiful without ornament. Beautiful
- We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally… Arrange
- Whoever degrades another degrades me. Another Degrades
- Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. Despotism
- Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. Each
- Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of… All
- Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. Convince
- The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. Affluent
- Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow. Follow
- At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… Been
- The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. Best
- Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one… All
- O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. All
- Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the… Finally
- My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write… Afresh
- I hate commas in the wrong places. Commas
- My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was… Beginnings
- O amazement of things-even the least particle! Amazement
- To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom -… Brief
- The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures,… Argue
- I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of… Adorn
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