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144 ordspråk av Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman föddes den 31 maj 1819 och dog den 26 mars 1892 - US writer
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When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination? At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs -- in religion, literature, colleges and schools -- democracy in all public and private life....

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion

Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death

Comrade, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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