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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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf -the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

In the faces of men and women I see God

Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles

Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Jag vet inget storslagnare, bättre motion, bättre matsmältning, mer positivt bevis på det förflutna, den triumferande resultatet av tro på mänskligheten, än ett väl genomfört amerikanskt nationellt val.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election

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