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Walt Whitman bol americký básnik, esejista, novinár a humanista. Už štyri roky po jeho smrti ho mnohí zahraniční pozorovatelia vyhlásili za "najväčšieho amerického básnika". Považuje sa za prvého mestského básnika. Tvorí prechod medzi transcendentalizmom a realizmom a oba smery vteľuje do svojho diela. Jeho diela sa preložili do viac ako 25 jazykov. Whitman patrí k najvplyvnejším a najrozporuplnejším básnikom.

✵ 31. máj 1819 – 26. marec 1892
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Walt Whitman najznámejšie citáty

„Každú ľudskú chybu možno odpustiť, iba neľudskosť nie.“

Prisudzované výroky

„Aby existovali veľkí básnici, musia existovať veľkí čitatelia.“

Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: [KOTRMANOVÁ, Milada.: Perly ducha. Ostrava: Knižní expres, 1996 ISBN 80-902272-1-X]

Walt Whitman: Citáty v angličtine

“Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.”

Conversation with Whitman (16 May 1888) as quoted in With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906) http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/1/med.00001.49.html by Horace Traubel, Vol. I <!-- p. 166 -->
Kontext: There was a kind of labor agitator here today—a socialist, or something like that: young, a rather beautiful boy — full of enthusiasms: the finest type of the man in earnest about himself and about life. I was sorry to see him come: I am somehow afraid of agitators, though I believe in agitation: but I was more sorry to see him go than come. Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated. … Cheer! cheer! Is there anything better in this world anywhere than cheer — just cheer? Any religion better? — any art? Just cheer!

“I am satisfied… I see, dance, laugh, sing.”

Walt Whitman kniha Fulles d'herba

Zdroj: Leaves of Grass

“In the faces of men and women I see God.”

Song of Myself, 48
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”

Walt Whitman kniha Fulles d'herba

Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Zdroj: Leaves of Grass

“I tramp a perpetual journey.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Zdroj: Song of Myself

“Your very flesh shall be a great poem…”

Walt Whitman kniha Fulles d'herba

Varianta: And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Zdroj: Leaves of Grass

“Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others…
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

From the Preface to the 1855 edition of <i>Leaves of Grass</i>
Kontext: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . .
Kontext: This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded work. He shall know that the ground is always ready ploughed and manured.... others may not know it but he shall. He shall go directly to the creation. His trust shall master the trust of everything he touches.... and shall master all attachment.

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