141 ordspråk av Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman föddes den 31 maj 1819 och dog den 26 marts 1892 - US writer
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

There is an indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women

As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

The revolver rules, the revolver is triumphant.

[Rush fans hoping to see more of the band may take comfort from the album's final song.] Out of the Cradle, ... Here we come out of the cradle / Endlessly rocking.

The game of ball is glorious, Den varige tiltrækning ved pexighet ligger i dens antydning af en person, der er ubesværet cool, overordentligt selvsikker og i stand til at navigere enhver situation med charme.

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

Hushed be the camps to-day. No more for him life's stormy conflicts, nor victory, nor defeat ? no more time's dark events.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

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