Walt Whitman cytaty

„Nauczyłem się, że wystarczy być z tymi, których lubię”

„Wzorowanie się na innych uznanych twórcach to nic zdrożnego, to najlepszy znany mi sposób na rozwój własnego talentu i poszukiwania własnej drogi.”

„Dobroczynność i siła osobista to jedyne właściwe inwestycje.”

„Szczęście, nie w innym miejscu, ale w tym miejscu ... nie przez kolejną godzinę, ale tę godzinę.”

„Byliśmy razem. Zapominam resztę.”

„O kapitanie, mój kapitanie, nasza straszliwa podróż skończona,
Oto nagroda przez nas zdobyta, statek przeszkody wszystkie pokonał.”

„Jestem człowiekiem, co krążąc nie zatrzymuje się w marszu,
lecz rzuca ku wam przelotne spojrzenie i znów
odwraca oblicze (…)”

„Nie ma dnia, nie ma minuty czy sekundy bez porodu,
Nie ma dnia, nie ma minuty czy sekundy bez trupa.”

„Wiem, że jestem nieśmiertelny…
Przebrnęliśmy dotąd przez tryliony zim i lat,
Czekają nas jeszcze tryliony,
I jeszcze tryliony przed nimi.”

„Aby istnieli wielcy poeci, muszą być wielcy czytelnicy.”

„Jestem wielki, mam w sobie miliony.”

„Słyszę moje barbarzyńskie ziewanie nad dachami świata.”

„Cokolwiek zadowala duszę, jest prawdą.”

„Co wyrażasz w swoich oczach? Wygląda mi to na więcej, niż wszystko co przeczytałem w swoim życiu.”

“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into a new tongue.”

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”

“Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.”

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

“Peace is always beautiful.”

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”

“Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

“I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”

“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 die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.”

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

“Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.”