Walt Whitman cytaty

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„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.”

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”

“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”

“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

“And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles”

“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”

“I am satisfied… I see, dance, laugh, sing.”

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”

“In the faces of men and women I see God.”

“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”

“The real war will never get in the books.”

“I tramp a perpetual journey.”

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light
and of every moment of your life”

“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

“I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”

“Your very flesh shall be a great poem…”

“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?”

“Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others…
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

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

“I Think it is lost….. but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost.
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”

“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.”