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

Walt Whitman · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Walt Whitman wäre heute 204 Jahre, 10 Monate, 20 Tage oder 74.835 Tage alt.

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

• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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• O amazement of things - even the least particle!

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• O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .
  • Politik - Ganz große Worte

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• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle . . . A reminiscence sing.

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

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• Sex contains all, bodies, souls, / Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, / All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, / All the governments, judges, gods.

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• The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

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• The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done. From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

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• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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• There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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• There's a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand - he's the man who delivers the goods.

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• This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, Against the foulest crime in history known in any land orage, Was saved the Union of these States.

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• To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.

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• Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

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• When I give, I give myself.

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• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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• Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands, Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands, There the great city stands.

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• Where the populace rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons.

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