Say it again

Everything » search for 'Walt Whitman'   search my stuff only   wikipedia for 'Walt Whitman'

I am large, I contain multitudes.

Tags:

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Tags: disagreement x |

O to have my life henceforth a poem of new joys!
To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on,
To be a sailor of the world, bound for all ports,
A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
A swift and swelling ship, full of rich words—full of joys.

Tags:

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Tags:

In the morning, there is one incessant stream of people – employed in New York on business – tending toward the ferry. ... They rush forward as if for dear life, and woe to the fat woman or unwieldy person of any kind, who stands in their way.

Tags:

At length let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
And that we call Being.

Tags:

In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well
as forward sluing,
To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object
missing,
Absorbing all to myself and for this song.

Tags:

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
When I give I give myself.
...
And any thing I have I bestow.

Tags: