Walt Whitman Berühmte Zitate
Fälschlicherweise zugeschrieben. Es stammt aus dem Gedicht "The road not taken" von Robert Frost
Tagebuch, 1876
"What worse - what more general malady pervades each and all of us, our literature, education, attitude toward each other, (even toward ourselves,) than a morbid trouble about seems, (generally temporarily seems too,) and no trouble at all, or hardly any, about the sane, slow-growing, perennial, real parts of character, books, friendship, marriage - humanity's invisible foundations and hold-together?" - The Lesson of a Tree. September 1. Prose Works 1892. Volume I Specimen Days. Edited by Floyd Stovall. © New York University 1963
Zitate über Leben von Walt Whitman
Grashalme, Inschriften, Das Buch, Übers. v. Wilhelm Schölermann, Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1904, www.zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/M/Whitman,+Walt/Lyrik/Grashalme+(Auswahl)/Inschriften/Das+Buch
Original engl.: "[(As if any man really knew aught of my life, //] Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, // Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections // I seek for my own use to trace out here." - When I Read the Book. Inscriptions - gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1322/1322-h/1322-h.htm#2H_4_0066
Zitate über die Nacht von Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Zitate und Sprüche
Tagebuch, 1877
Original engl.: "Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! - ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more!" - A Sun-Bath - Nakedness. Sunday, Aug. 27 [1876]. Prose Works 1892. Volume I Specimen Days. Edited by Floyd Stovall. © New York University 1963
Wir zwei Knaben, Grashalme, Leipzig 1904, S. 140 zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20005903602
Original engl.: "Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, // Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, // Fulfilling our foray." - We Two Boys Together Clinging. Calamus - gutenberg.org http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1322/1322-h/1322-h.htm#2H_4_0066
Gesang von mir selbst, in: Grashalme. Übers. v. Wilhelm Schölermann, Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1904 zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20005903386
Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "Of all portraits of me made by artists I like Eakins's best: it is not perfect but it comes nearest being me." - 1888, zitiert in: Alice A. Carter, "The Essential Thomas Eakins", H. N. Abrams : New York 2001, ISBN 0-8109-5830-9, S. 84
Walt Whitman: Zitate auf Englisch
“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.”
Quelle: Song of Myself
“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
Quelle: Song of Myself
“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Starting from Paumanok. 12
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.”
Variante: Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Quelle: Leaves of Grass