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).
“Para existir grandes poetas, devem existir grandes espectadores também.”
Variante: Para existir grandes poetas, devem existir grandes expectadores também.
“Lágrimas! Lágrimas! Lágrimas! / À noite, na solidão, lágrimas.”
Fonte: "Folhas de Relva"
Amei certa pessoa ardentemente
e meu amor não foi correspondido,
mas foi daí que tirei estes cantos.
“Para que haja grandes poetas é preciso que haja também um grande público.”
Fonte: "Folhas de Relva"
“Uma mulher espera-me, tem tudo, não falta nada. Mas faltaria tudo se faltasse o sexo.”
Fonte: "Folhas de Relva"
“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.
Walt Whitman: Frases em inglês
“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”
Fonte: Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Walt Whitman livro Fulles d'herba
Fonte: Leaves of Grass
“Give me solitude — give me Nature — give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!”
Walt Whitman livro Fulles d'herba
Leaves of Grass
“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.”
Song of the Broad-Axe
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Walt Whitman livro Drum-Taps
Drum-Taps. Dirge for Two Veterans
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!”
To think of Time, 9
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Memories of President Lincoln. O Captain! my Captain!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
So Long!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 7
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.”
Salut au Monde, 11
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.”
Thoughts, 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Memories of President Lincoln, 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127 http://books.google.com/books?id=M34nK8SaiMcC&dq=Walt+Whitman+schools&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
