"Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at……" — Walt Whitman
"Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!"
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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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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
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The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few…
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers,…
— August Strindberg
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to…
— Edith Wharton
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If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and…
— A B Simpson
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I realized both the upper and lower body must be held securely in place with one strap across the chest…
— Nils Bohlin
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the…
— Jack Adams
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in…
— Anne Perry
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Writes have an island, a center of refuge, within themselves. It is the mind's anchorage, the soul's Great Good Place.
— Wright Morris
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At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the…
— Richard E. Byrd
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