Walt Whitman Quotes

I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

Walt Whitman

• Mind
• Heart
• Morning

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Change

• I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Los Angeles
  • Bit
  • Nashville

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it's really peaceful.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Think
  • Door
  • Garden

• When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Man
  • You

• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Play
  • Never
  • Broadway

• I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed - the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange - to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Great
  • She
  • House

• There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Mind
  • Write
  • Something

• When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Stupid

• Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Want
  • Story
  • Finding

• Buddhism calls anger 'corruption of the mind,' Manicheism 'root of the tree of death.' I know this, but what good does it do me to know?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Death

• I'm English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

  

  Will Self
  • Attention
  • Enough

• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pain

• I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Morning