Quotes Tagged With :whitman

Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer....

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding,Each detail minding,Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

I saw thee once - only once - years ago:I must not say how many - but not many.It was a July midnight;....

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the....

I situate myself, and seat myself,And where you recline I shall recline,For every armchair belonging....

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and....

Behold the day-break!I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face,I stir you with muscular....

Such is a communityof inviolable immunity, protectedfrom tampering or harpooningmutiny. Every better....

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women....

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their....