Leaves Of Grass quotes
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"The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass"
"I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots."
"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean"
"Strong and content I travel the open road."
"There will never be any more perfection than there is now."
"Something there is more immortal even than the stars."
"And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels."
"Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it."
"I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content."
"Shut not your doors to me proud libraries."
"Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations."
"O amazement of things-even the least particle!"
"Are you the new person drawn toward me?"
"Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"
"There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became."
"Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !"
"I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'"
