"Agonies are one of my changes of garments." — Walt Whitman
"Agonies are one of my changes of garments."
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Walt Whitman
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422 Quotes by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman has 422 quotes on this site.
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And…
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet…
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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the…
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at…
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the…
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the…
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...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous…
— Karl Marx
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The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the…
— Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
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Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of…
— Whitley Strieber
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
— William C. Bryant
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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in…
— George Eliot
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It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by…
— Hector Berlioz
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