"He most honors my style who learns under……" — Walt Whitman
"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
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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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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
— Joseph Addison
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
— Max Beerbohm
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget…
— Aneurin Bevan
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
— William Blake
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