“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”

—  Walt Whitman

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower." by Walt Whitman?
Walt Whitman photo
Walt Whitman 181
American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

Related quotes

Mark Twain photo
James Howell photo

“He that hath once got the fame of an early riser, may sleep till noon.”

James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

Source: [Howell, James, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22, Google Books, 1655 Edition, 20 September 2016]

“Lucky Australians! They can go on sleeping for another seven hours and stil pass as early risers.”

Caryl Brahms (1901–1982) English critic, novelist, and journalist

Ooh! La-La!

Dafydd ap Gwilym photo

“Triumphant hours are the Lark's
Who circles skywards from his home each day:
World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.”

Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320–1380) Welsh poet

Oriau hydr yr ehedydd
A dry fry o'i dŷ bob dydd,
Borewr byd, berw aur bill,
Barth â'r wybr, borthor Ebrill.
"Yr Ehedydd" (The Skylark), line 1; translation from Dafydd ap Gwilym (ed. and trans. Rachel Bromwich) A Selection of Poems (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1982] 1985) p. 74.

Joseph Addison photo
Zoya Akhtar photo

“No. If I am in such a temper, than the person I am in a temper with needs to leave.”

Zoya Akhtar (1974) Indian film director

as an answer to the question: Have you ever walked of a set, in a temper?

On the Sets, at 0 Min 19 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3deXjh9X0_U
Panel interview at MAMI(Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) Film Festival

W.B. Yeats photo

“The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

The Countess Cathleen http://www.letras.ufrj.br/veralima/6_referencias/63_e_texts_2005/yeats/countess_cathleen/yeats_countess_cathleen_2005.htm, last lines (1892)

Related topics