Walt Whitman: Frasi in inglese

“Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.”

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into a new tongue.”

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”

“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”