"I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to……" — Walt Whitman
"I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.""
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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 Banished Quotes
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
— Vannevar Bush
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different…
— Susan B. Anthony
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of…
— Herbert Hoover
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Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery…
— William James
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
— Plotinus
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented…
— John Quincy Adams
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If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back…
— Unknown Author
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You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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