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Drucker, Journalist, Lehrer, Versdichter (USA, 1819 - 1892).

Walt Whitman · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Walt Whitman wäre heute 205 Jahre, 10 Monate, 4 Tage oder 75.184 Tage alt.

Geboren am 31.05.1819 in West Hills/Long Island
Gestorben am 26.03.1892 in Camden/New Jersey
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Each belongs here or anywhere as much as the well-off . . . just as much as you or I. Each has his or her place in the procession.

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• Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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• Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die and I know it.

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• Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you, or disputed the passage with you?

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• Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who rejected you and braced themselves against you or who treated you with contempt or disputed the passage with you?

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• I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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• I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be.

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlours of heaven.

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• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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• I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dreamed that was the new city of Friends.

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• I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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• I sing the body electric.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lieawake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one isrespectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

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• If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

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• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

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• Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature.

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• My own Manhattan, with spires and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships.

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• My rendez-vous is appointed, it is certain, The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms, The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.

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