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
“Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.”
Quelle: Song of Myself
“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”
Variante: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass
“I am larger, better than I thought;
I did not know I held so much goodness.”
Quelle: Leaves of Grass