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Quotes by Walt. Whitman
Of the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all, that we may-be deluded, That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only, May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known.— filed under Doubt
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.— filed under Perfection
Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.— filed under Character
Oh, a strange hand writes for our dear son- O, stricken mother's soul! All swims before her eyes-flashes with blackshe catches the main words only; Sentences broken-gun-shot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital; At present low, but will soon be better.— filed under Vii
Lo! body and soul!-this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land, -the South And the North in the light-Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.— filed under Countries-America
Great is Youth-equally great is Old Agegreat are Day and Night. Great is Wealth-great is Poverty-great is Expression-great is Silence.— filed under Grief
Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.— filed under Insects-Katydid
The butcher in his killing clothes.— filed under Occupations-Authorship
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What dost thou with thy best apparel on? Julius Cæsar. Act. I. Sc. 1. L. 5. The carpenter dresses his plank-the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp.— filed under Occupations-Cabinet-Making
The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere, The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising, The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular, Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises, according as they were prepared, The blows of the mallets and hammers.— filed under Occupations-Cabinet-Making
The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, rapidly laying the long side-wall, The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks, The bricks, one after another, each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle.— filed under Occupations-Law
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blurr with the manuscript,— filed under Occupations-Printing
Nothing endures but personal qualities.— filed under Quality