Famous quotes containing the word whitman:
“O the orators joys!
To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
To lead Americato quell America with a great tongue.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“Thee for my recitative,
Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
declining,
Thee in thy panoply, thy measurd dual throbbing and thy beat
convulsive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“There is that in meI do not know what it isbut I know it is in me ...
I do not know itit is without nameit is a word unsaid,
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol ...
Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
It is not chaos or deathit is form, union, planit is eternal lifeit is Happiness.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)