"Let your soul stand cool and composed before……" — Walt Whitman
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
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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 Composed Quotes
This quote is filed under Composed Quotes,
one of 456 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is…
— Walter Benjamin
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy…
— Diablo Cody
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the…
— Robert E. Lee
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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