Walt Whitman Quotes
(1 - 10 of 33)If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
I accept reality and dare not question it.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the more
Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;
The varied and ample land,--the South
And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,
And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.
- Walt Whitman,
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns his quid of tobacco, more
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the
manuscript.
Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree
over the well.
Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree
over the well.
On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up more
On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,
And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
Watching, silently weeps.
Weep not, child,
Weep not, my darling,
With these kisses let me remove your tears,
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night,
the Pleiades shall emerge,
They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter?
Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,
I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter
Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
