"Exact science and its practical movements are no……" — Walt Whitman
"Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect 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 Anatomist Quotes
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By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even…
— Unknown Author
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[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye…
— Rembrandt Peale
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
— John Ruskin
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But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism…
— Evelyn Underhill
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