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Walt Whitman Quotes About Greatness

We have collected for you the TOP of Walt Whitman's best quotes about Greatness! Here are collected all the quotes about Greatness starting from the birthday of the Poet – May 31, 1819! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 3 sayings of Walt Whitman about Greatness. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!

  • Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

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    Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.200, University of Iowa Press

  • The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

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    1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

  • A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

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    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.161, NYU Press
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Walt Whitman

  • Born: May 31, 1819
  • Died: March 26, 1892
  • Occupation: Poet
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