My favorite quote of walt whitman is "there is no black grass and white grass". This is my favorite quote because i think that he is trying to say that all things are equal. To me it says there should not be seperation of blacks and whites, or sepration from the rich and the poor. But we should all treat eachother as equals and all join together as one. Walt Whitman would always talk about how all different people can come together as one, and break the line between them.

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I like this quote because it is a very humble phrase, it's not loud and boisterous. Instead, it is almost a whisper, a quiet line of words at the end of a tremendous piece of literary work. It doesn't shout whitman's ideas or proclaim his feelings of love for the world. It is simply a few words made into a simple sentence.

I also like how he portrays himself as omniscent and everlasting. While the body may disappear or lose its recognizable form, the atoms and molecules will remain. So too shall the soul remain. Also, I love how he shows how he is always willing to offer help or advice. You need not look far to find one of America's greatest literary minds for inspiration.

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"I am the poet of the Body, and I am the Poet of the Soul."

I chose this quote because it shows how Walt Whitman is somehow the corporeal and incorporeal in the sense of his poetry. I like how, in the first part, he uses antithesis to show he is not so easily definable. I believe this quote truly explains the essence of Whitman’s poetry. He is certainly a poet of the body, which is indicated earlier when he says, "urge, urge, and urge, always the procreant urge of the world." He talks of his “love root” with quite a cavalier attitude, which indicates that he does not believe in the sheltering of people from parts of the body that society has deemed “unclean.” He also talks about having sex with the air, which seems odd at first glance. However, if you think about it, you can view it as an expression of love, which is not only of nature, but also of the body, which is why he is the poet of the body. This is well complemented by the part about the soul. A lot of Whitman’s poetry prompts the reader to take a look at themselves, and focus on pleasing the self instead of pleasing other people. The soul is the essential being of a person, which is independent of society’s views, for the soul is invisible, and can not be seen as to be judged. He often projects himself into other scenes, which can not be done just with the body. This requires some imagination which, artistically speaking, comes from the soul. This is why this quote is the essence of Whitman.

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This qoute to me says a lot of things. For example its saying that he is one with nature. Technology really doesnt make a difference in his life. He see's a eagle soaring, and feels untamed like it and i can actually relate to that also. I also feel like I belong in the wilderness, soaring around with the other Falcons. I think this qoute can speak to us now in 2009 because, to many people rely on technology to do everything they do. I too like Whitman would love to live in the middle of no where, with no technology and just rely on my too hands, and feet. So don't let the small things in life control you or have you revolve around them. Humans need to get back in touch with their inner self, there animal totem.

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My favorite quote is, "Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul."

I chose this as my quote because it can speak to us in terms of today, or any time period. A lot of us don't see each other as equals, when, in all actuality, no one person is better than another. I hear that all the time, "You are no better than anyone else” And yet sometimes it doesn't stay within us, this thought of everyone having the same rights as you, the same rewards or discipline as you. Sometimes that doesn't sit well with me. I think us, as a nation needs to focus more on people as individuals rather than as groups. The blacks aren't better than the Asians; the whites aren't better than the Hispanics. We (not everyone, but I'm generalizing) tend to classify people according to first impressions, whether that be what race we see, where they live, what their job is or who they hang out with...We stereotype and, I myself, admit that I will occasionally look at someone and pick out their flaws just to make me feel better about myself. That’s not right, and I know that. But I think everyone does that from time to time, no one is perfect and I think we will forever have trouble accepting everyone. Realizing that they are just as beautiful, special and important as us can be a tough job sometimes. I feel a lot of this comes out of stress, jealousy or ignorance. With the economy today, and people losing their jobs to someone else, we need to blame this on someone! Who else but the person who took that from us, and the rest of the ‘group’ that fits with them? It’s sad seeing someone being discriminated against, stereotyped and shot down just because someone cant accept them for whatever reason, but it definitely happens non stop in our society today and I don’t feel we are taking a good enough look at the issue.

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I would have to say that my favorite Qote would be "Stand up for the Stupid and crazy."

I chose this quote because it realtes my daily life. Many people do make fun of the dumb and stuipd but very few people stand up for them. I am one of those few people who would defend them to the end. When their is some sort of injustice going on i try to make it just. I stand with the people in which society has looked down as the Black sheep. Yet when i defend them, most of society labels me as a Black sheep too. I once aced much worse on the dumb and stuipd then society does when i was a child but i wil not be lead into a heap of lies. If i must take most of the punishment from them just to make the lives of the outcasted a little easier i will do it. One man can only last the punishment for so long. It so weakness his soul, his spirit, his will. One man can't do it alone. We get weaker and weaker everyday of defending them. Yet every day we must also live a lie. If people see that we are touched by this punishment the anyone can be courpted. We are tired. People like me defend the misunderstood because we feel like we have a untold, unspoken duty to protect those that need us the most. We do this not for the recognition or the glory but for the sheer will of doing it. The fact that you might have made a difference in the world for the better. The universe is so vast and we are so samll, the one thing that we can every truly control, is wether we are good or evil. We fight with the good. We are lonely deep inside because we are truely the misundrstood. We ar the heros whose stories will never be heard. We will fade into the fabric of time and be forgoten like the stars fading into the moring light. We truly we to be understood. I say all of this because people who defend the misunderstood are also misunderstood but more importantly they do it because they are the line the fights back the chaos. I hope that explains it.

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My favorite quote by Walt Whitman in “ Song of Myself” is when he said, “ I sound my barbaric yawps over the roofs of the world.”


This is my favorite quote because I can relate to Whitman because this day and age everyone in the world has a right or freedom to speak. There is no more segregation in America; there are now more freedoms than back in Whitman’s day. Blacks, Mexicans, and other people of different ethnicities have freedom in America right now. Today we can yawp what we want to others in the world. This quotes is one of Whitman’s best because it describes him and how he thinks of himself to others. He doesn’t care what others think he’ll go around saying what he wants and the people who listen and the people who don’t, it doesn’t matter to him. Whitman wanted the people in his day to listen to him. He wanted to be heard around the world. Today with new technology we can talk to people anywhere in the world. Also new technology helps us to here our leaders in America like President Barack Obama when he gave his inaugural address. Just imagine if everyone in the world could have heard Whitman back then. There would have been people who liked his poetry and those who didn’t. This quote tells us that we should not be quiet and unknown we should speak what we think and yell it to the world for everyone to here.

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i just wanted to write my own poems and have people critize it.

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my favorite whitman quote from "Song of Myself" is "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable"

This is my favorite line because it define's most of america. Even Though it doesn't seem like it, because some people seem really tamed and caged in their normal life that they dont even know what freedom is let alone what it means, that is what makes me sad about america is that some people cant be able to be free and do what job they really want to and are sad about it, because they have to support a family member or support their kids or pay bills, that makes them tamed when they should really be happy with their job and have fun doing it, this would really make america a better place and if people really did the job that they wanted to do that would make them more free and un-caged, another reason i liked this line is because of the word untranslatable, this word could mean so meny diffrent things in the way that he says it, because i think of it as saying that the world is untranslatable, because the world should really be understood but most people ignore what it is saying and that's why it is untranslatable, because to understand the world you have to really listen to what it is saying to you, because of what we the "humans" did to the world it makes it harder to hear the world and listen to it, because of the buildings and the car's and every other distraction in this "human" life it really does make it diffcult to hear him, we are also distroying this world by the polution and that is distroying the worlds "heart" in a way, soon if we keep going the way we do then nobody will be able to hear the world and even if they do hear the world they will never be able to undertand it, that really makes me dissapointed in not only our ablilty to listen and pay attion to the things around us but how much we acually care about the world we live in.

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