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Walt Whitman famously wrote, "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
Walt Whitman = famous US poet (1819-1892)
- I was reminded by Walt Whitman to think of the past, and I awaited "The Fire Next Time" with James Baldwin.† (source)
- In thin black pen, the song title "Walt Whitman's Niece" had been circled.† (source)
- It was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, and he had carried it with him throughout the war.† (source)
- We were studying the poetry of Walt Whitman: Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night, the Pleiades shall emerge, They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again Vacant faces.† (source)
- I mouth the names I read off the spines, at least the ones I can make out: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth.† (source)
- That radical individualism is politically charged in Lawrence, just as it is in Walt Whitman (whom he admired greatly) and Ralph Waldo Emerson in their very different ways.† (source)
- What is it your Walt Whitman says about the fluid and attaching character?† (source)
- The other champion, Walt Whitman, demanded a real dictionary that "will give us all the words that exist in use, the bad words as well as any."† (source)
- While talking of another Brooklyn laureate, Walt Whitman, I found it easy not to pay perfect attention to what Leslie was saying.† (source)
- She was dazzled by Papa's loving man, Walt Whitman, whose poetry was like talking — or was his talking like poetry?† (source)
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- "Hey, Radar, look up who —Walt Whitman was," Ben said.† (source)
- "Walt Whitman's Niece" was the first song on side two.† (source)
- But we were just saying that Walt Whitman was from New York.† (source)
- Nothing relating to Walt Whitman's niece, certainly.† (source)
- He's fond of the poems of Walt Whitman, and Leaves of Grass was on the bench beside him.† (source)
- No, that was Walt Whitman.† (source)
- As I slung it over one shoulder and started to leave, Dr. Holden smiled at me and said, "Walt Whitman, huh?"† (source)
- Walt Whitman.† (source)
- Most of this probably would not surprise and much of it might delight Walt Whitman, whom we quoted at the beginning, appealing for a language of "unhemmed latitude."† (source)
- It was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, the book I'd brought to him in the hospital, the book that I could never imagine him without.† (source)
- There were other items, too—dried flowers and newspaper clippings about Allie's shows, special gifts from the children, the edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman that had been his companion throughout World War II.† (source)
- Does it have Walt Whitman?† (source)
- I saw Moses, whose hair recalled portraits of Walt Whitman, a splendidly theatrical Moses, wandering through the desert at the head of the Jews, with a dark and fiery eye and a long staff and the stride of a Wotan.† (source)
- Angel had come as pupil to this dairy in the idea that his temporary existence here was to be the merest episode in his life, soon passed through and early forgotten; he had come as to a place from which as from a screened alcove he could calmly view the absorbing world without, and, apostrophizing it with Walt Whitman— Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, How curious you are to me!† (source)
- His art, more than the art of feudalism as Walt Whitman called it, is the art of surfeit.† (source)
- Lowell and Walt Whitman, in fact, were the first men of letters, properly so called, to give specific assent to the great changes that were firmly fixed in the national speech during the half century between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.† (source)
- Walt Whitman made a half attempt and then drew back; Lowell, perhaps, also heard the call, but too soon.† (source)
- 1 O take my hand Walt Whitman!† (source)
- What widens within you Walt Whitman?† (source)
- 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman?† (source)
- 4 What do you see Walt Whitman?† (source)
- To a Common Prostitute Be composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.† (source)
- 24 Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.† (source)
- …(for we are one,) That should I after return, Or, long, long hence, in other spheres, There to some group of mates the chants resuming, (Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,) Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on, Ever and ever yet the verses owning—as, first, I here and now Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name, Walt Whitman BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS One's-Self I Sing One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.† (source)
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