Walt Whitman: Frasi in inglese (pagina 5)

“But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
I tread day and night such roads.”

“Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.”

“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.

The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”

“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”

“The question, O me! so sad, recurring -
What good amid these, O me, O life?
That you are here - that life
exists and identity,
that the powerful play goes on,
and you may contribute a verse.”

“O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.”

“Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.”

“Oh captain my captain”

“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."

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“I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is”

“Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.”

“after you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”

“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”

“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.”

“To have great poets,
there must be great audiences.”

“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”

“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”