Walt Whitman Quotes

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman

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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Never

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• There always have been funny women.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Always

• He who is contented is rich.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Rich
  • He
  • Contented

• When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Home
  • Going
  • Leave

• As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.

  

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

• Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.

  

  Kathy Najimy
  • Exercise

• That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Forces
  • Member
  • Coalition

• During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• You can't win what you don't fight for.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Fight

• [I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Music
  • Change

• (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Giving
  • Promise
  • Catholic

• Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Poet

• The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Poet
  • Judges
  • Helpless