Quote #8
Leaves of Grass
More from Walt Whitman
- Yes, Mexico must be thoroughly chastised! Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, while we are not forw…
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- I said: 'Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!' He was hilarious: 'That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well - it's our game: that's t…
- We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, …
- I have just this moment heard from the front - there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting som…
- Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell'd. Study not only their productions. There is a…
- It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and…