"I inhale great draught of space...the east and……" — Walt Whitman
"I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness."
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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 Draught Quotes
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I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment…
— John Burroughs
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on…
— Maya Angelou
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
— Frederick Marryat
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped…
— Zadie Smith
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Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,…
— Thomas Noon Talfourd
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
— Plato
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is…
— Plato
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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