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
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
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 <br class="br">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
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
Wir zwei Knaben, Grashalme, Leipzig 1904, S. 140 zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20005903602 <br class="br">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
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
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.”
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.”
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
Quelle: Song of Myself
“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
Quelle: Song of Myself
“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
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.”
Walt Whitman buch Grashalme
Variante: Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
