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
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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
Roaming in Thought, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality," http://www.bartleby.com/229/5004.html letter to the Philadelphia Press (20 July 1883), later published in The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman (1892), part V: November Boughs
Letter to his mother (22 March 1864)
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Drum-Taps. Reconciliation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Night on the Prairies
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Song of the Universal, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Conversation with Whitman (July 16 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) https://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/2/med.00002.2.html by Horace Traubel, Vol. II
“The paths to the house I seek to make,
But leave to those to come the house itself.”
Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Memories of President Lincoln, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV <!-- p. 508 -->
Now Finalè to the Shore (To Tennyson)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
This has been widely attributed to Whitman, and no one else, but without definite source. It has sometimes been cited as being from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (sometimes with a date of 23 July 1846), where Whitman had been an editor, but its presence on that date is not apparent in the online historical archives http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ of that publication.
Brian Cronin, in "Did 'Bull Durham' misquote Walt Whitman on baseball?" http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-bull-durham-baseball-20120328,0,5200453.story, Los Angeles Times (28 March 2012), suggests that this is (loosely) paraphrased from a remark of September 1888 reported in Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Vol. 2:
I like your interest in sports ball, chiefest of all base-ball particularly: base-ball is our game: the American game: I connect it with our national character. Sports take people out of doors, get them filled with oxygen generate some of the brutal customs (so-called brutal customs) which, after all, tend to habituate people to a necessary physical stoicism. We are some ways a dyspeptic, nervous set: anything which will repair such losses may be regarded as a blessing to the race. We want to go out and howl, swear, run, jump, wrestle, even fight, if only by so doing we may improve the guts of the people: the guts, vile as guts are, divine as guts are!
"Sports for a Dyspeptic Race", Intimate With Walt: Whitmans Conversataions With Horace Traubel, p. 261 https://books.google.com/books?id=_Rp_4VHeQkAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=With+Walt+Whitman+in+Camden&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqMtVfHQLcODsAWM-ICIDQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=base-ball&f=false
Disputed
“Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!”
Drum-Taps. Rise O Days from your fathomless Deep, 3
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
Miracles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
"Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839)
Song of Myself, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.”
To a Foiled European Revolutionaire
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Drum-Taps. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.”
Starting from Paumanok, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.”
Song of Myself, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.”
Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?”
Laws for Creations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Editorial comment identified as from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (11 May 1846)
Disputed
“All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.”
Song of the Universal, 4
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.”
Night on the Prairies
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Salut au Monde, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
“I said: "Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!"”
He was hilarious: "That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
Conversation with Whitman (4 July 1889) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV
