Frases de Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman foi um poeta, ensaísta e jornalista norte-americano, considerado por muitos como o "pai do verso livre". Paulo Leminski o considerava o grande poeta da Revolução americana, como Maiakovsky seria o grande poeta da Revolução russa .

✵ 31. Maio 1819 – 26. Março 1892
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Walt Whitman Frases famosas

Citações de homens de Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman frases e citações

“Meu espírito é amplo; eu contenho multidões.”

Fonte: livro Psicologia, E/Imigração e Cultura, org. de A. DeBiaggi e G. de Paiva (Casa do Psicólogo).

“Se há alguma coisa sagrada é o corpo humano.”

Fonte: "Folhas de Relva"

“Para existir grandes poetas, devem existir grandes espectadores também.”

Variante: Para existir grandes poetas, devem existir grandes expectadores também.

“Celebro a mim mesmo / e canto a mim mesmo.”

Fonte: "Canto a mim mesmo"

“Existo como sou, / isso é o que basta.”

Fonte: "Canto a mim mesmo"

“Está na hora de eu falar de mim, / vamos ficar de pé!”

Fonte: "Canto a mim mesmo"

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“Vivas àqueles que levaram a pior!”

Fonte: "Canto a mim mesmo"

“Eu me contradigo? Pois muito bem, eu me contradigo. Sou amplo, contenho multidões.”

Variante: Contradigo-me? Pois bem, então contradigo-me. Sou extenso, contenho multiplicidades.

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Walt Whitman: Frases em inglês

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

While consistently attributed to Whitman, this popular motivational quote has no source. It is occasionally listed as occurring in Leaves of Grass, but the closest phrase found in that collection is "Be not curious about God."
Disputed
Variante: Be curious, not judgmental.

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Misattributed

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

Walt Whitman livro Fulles d'herba

Fonte: Leaves of Grass

“Resist much, obey little.”

Walt Whitman livro Fulles d'herba

Fonte: Leaves of Grass

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

Variante: What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

Walt Whitman livro Fulles d'herba

Leaves of Grass
Variante: I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”

Song of Myself, 52
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Peace is always beautiful.”

Walt Whitman livro Fulles d'herba

The Sleepers, 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Fonte: Leaves of Grass

“Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”

Complete Prose Works (1892), III. Notes Left Over 3. Ventures, on an Old Theme, p.324 http://books.google.com/books?id=UJA1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA324
Contexto: If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere — probably more than the rest of the world combined.
Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations — many rare combinations.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

“I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”

"Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" http://www.aol.bartleby.com/229/4011.html (1839); later delivered as a lecture at the Brooklyn Art Union (31 March 1851) and printed in the Brooklyn Daily Advertizer (3 April 1851)
Contexto: It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. Who would not mourn that an ample palace, of surpassingly graceful architecture, fill’d with luxuries, and embellish’d with fine pictures and sculpture, should stand cold and still and vacant, and never be known or enjoy’d by its owner? Would such a fact as this cause your sadness? Then be sad. For there is a palace, to which the courts of the most sumptuous kings are but a frivolous patch, and, though it is always waiting for them, not one of its owners ever enters there with any genuine sense of its grandeur and glory.
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

“It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.”

"Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" http://www.aol.bartleby.com/229/4011.html (1839); later delivered as a lecture at the Brooklyn Art Union (31 March 1851) and printed in the Brooklyn Daily Advertizer (3 April 1851)
Contexto: It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess. Who would not mourn that an ample palace, of surpassingly graceful architecture, fill’d with luxuries, and embellish’d with fine pictures and sculpture, should stand cold and still and vacant, and never be known or enjoy’d by its owner? Would such a fact as this cause your sadness? Then be sad. For there is a palace, to which the courts of the most sumptuous kings are but a frivolous patch, and, though it is always waiting for them, not one of its owners ever enters there with any genuine sense of its grandeur and glory.
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

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