"Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders,……" — Walt Whitman
"Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete."
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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 Abstractions Quotes
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described…
— Carl Sagan
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He…
— Flannery O'Connor
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To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be…
— Wendell Berry
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There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
— Edmund Burke
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
— Marianne Williamson
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or…
— Virginia Woolf
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For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
— Paulo Coelho
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For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and…
— Max Stirner
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