"And your very flesh shall be a great…" — Walt Whitman
"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
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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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More Flesh Quotes
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
— Antonio Banderas
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
— William Barclay
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Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
— Geoffrey Beene
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want…
— Samuel Butler
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the…
— A. S. Byatt
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We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems.…
— Benjamin Carson
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
— Emile M. Cioran
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