Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

The lines with “any”

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  1. p. iii, line 15The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature […]
  2. p. iii, line 86[…] men do not make their mark out of any times! As if the opening of the western continent by […]
  3. p. iv, line 34[…] tamarind and persimmon . . . . and tangles as tangled as any canebrake or swamp . . . . and forests coated with transparent ice and […]
  4. p. v, line 43[…] greatest poet conquers . . . not parleying or struggling or any prepared attempts. Now he has passed that way see after […]
  5. p. v, line 45[…] way see after him! there is not left any vestige of despair or misanthropy or cunning or exclusiveness or […]
  6. p. v, line 52[…] knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the […]
  7. p. v, line 58[…] of the chorus . . . . he does not stop for any regulation . . . he is the president of regulation. What the eyesight […]
  8. p. v, line 63[…] senses corroborate themselves, but this is removed from any proof but its own and foreruns the identities of the […]
  9. p. vi, line 7[…] hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated […]
  10. p. vi, line 12[…] been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very […]
  11. p. vi, line 63[…] of the earth or sea without it—nor any direction of the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is […]
  12. p. vi, line 64[…] the sky nor any trade or employment nor any turn of events. This is the reason that about the […]
  13. p. vi, line 74[…] done the greatest poet brings the spirit of any or all events and passions and scenes and persons some […]
  14. p. vi, line 103[…] that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own. But it has sympathy as measureless […]
  15. p. vii, line 16[…] or the appearance of the moon afterward with any more satisfaction than you shall contemplate him. The greatest poet […]
  16. p. vii, line 22[…] meddlesome, I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect or originality to hang in the way […]
  17. p. vii, line 45[…] of art, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest forever and forever who contributes the […]
  18. p. vii, line 57[…] Supremes, and that one does not countervail another any more than one eyesight countervails another . . and that men can […]
  19. p. vii, line 73[…] kosmos . . without monopoly or secresy . . glad to pass any thing to any one . . hungry for equals night and day. They shall not […]
  20. p. viii, line 3[…] vital laws enclose all . . . . they are sufficient for any case and for all cases . . . none to be hurried or […]
  21. p. viii, line 5[…] all cases . . . none to be hurried or retarded . . . . any miracle of affairs or persons inadmissible in the vast clear […]
  22. p. viii, line 49[…] wherever men and women exist . . . . but never takes any adherence or welcome from the rest more than from poets […]
  23. p. viii, line 62[…] quelled from one failure or two failures or any number of failures, or from the casual indifference or ingratitude […]
  24. p. viii, line 66[…] the bringing to bear soldiers and cannon or any penal statutes. Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises […]
  25. p. viii, line 100[…] into the gripe of the gripers or into any cruel inferiority . . . . when those in all parts of these states […]
  26. p. viii, line 117[…] town or state or the federal government or any oppression on a largescale or small scale can be tried […]
  27. p. ix, line 5[…] souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth—then only shall the instinct of […]
  28. p. ix, line 29[…] say shall not realize or perceive more than any one else. The owner of the library is not he […]
  29. p. ix, line 31[…] to it having bought and paid for it. Any one and every one is owner of the library who […]
  30. p. ix, line 42[…] the illustrations of books or newspapers, or in any comic or tragic prints, or in the patterns of woven […]
  31. p. ix, line 43[…] or in the patterns of woven stuffs or any thing to beautify rooms or furniture or costumes, or to […]
  32. p. ix, line 83[…] fœtid puff . . . . and there never grew up in any of the continents of the globe nor upon any planet […]
  33. p. ix, line 84[…] of the continents of the globe nor upon any planet or satellite or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor […]
  34. p. ix, line 85[…] or star, nor upon the asteroids, nor in any part of ethereal space, nor in the midst of density […]
  35. p. ix, line 88[…] which precedes the birth of babes, nor at any time during the changes of life, nor in that condition […]
  36. p. ix, line 90[…] that follows what we term death, nor in any stretch of abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in […]
  37. p. ix, line 92[…] abeyance or action afterward of vitality, nor in any process of formation or reformation anywhere, a being whose instinct […]
  38. p. x, line 41[…] her in a day or a month or any part of the direct lifetime or the hour of death […]
  39. p. x, line 52[…] foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain […]
  40. p. x, line 54[…] the attainment of gain by discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men […]
  41. p. x, line 55[…] discreditable means , . not any nastiness of appetite . . not any harshness of officers to men or judges to prisoners or […]
  42. p. x, line 58[…] not of greedy looks or malignant wishes . . . nor any of the wiles practised by people upon themselves . . . ever is […]
  43. p. x, line 64[…] push of charity or personal force ever be any thing else than the profoundest reason, whether it bring arguments […]
  44. p. x, line 100[…] it succeeded or no . . . . all that has at any time been well suggested out of the divine heart of […]
  45. p. x, line 104[…] is well thought or done this day on any part of the surface of the globe . . or on any […]
  46. p. x, line 105[…] of the surface of the globe . . or on any of the wandering stars or fixed stars by those there […]
  47. p. x, line 109[…] done by you whoever you are, or by any one—these singly and wholly inured at their time and […]
  48. p. x, line 112[…] they sprung or shall spring . . . Did you guess any of them lived only its moment? The world does not […]
  49. p. xi, line 6[…] spot coming a bit nearer the beginning than any other spot. . . . . Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. The prudence […]
  50. p. xi, line 11[…] permits no let-up for its own case or any case, has no particular sabbath or judgment-day, divides not the […]
  51. p. xi, line 27[…] him again—and who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries or avoids death […]
  52. p. xi, line 48[…] developement. . . . . . . . Still the final test of poems or any character or work remains. The prescient poet projects himself centuries […]
  53. p. xi, line 72[…] man or woman but rather a beginning. Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due […]
  54. p. xii, line 11No great literature nor any like style of behaviour or oratory or social intercourse or […]
  55. p. xii, line 30[…] answers for me an American must answer for any individual or nation that serves for a part of my […]
  56. p. 14, line 11There was never any more inception than there is now,
  57. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  58. p. 14, line 13And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  59. p. 14, line 14Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
  60. p. 14, line 28Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  61. p. 16, line 8How could I answer the child? . . . . I do not know what it is any more than he.
  62. p. 17, line 8And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  63. p. 17, line 9Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
  64. p. 21, line 29He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;
  65. p. 30, line 1If I worship any particular thing it shall be some of the spread of my body;
  66. p. 32, line 19To be in any form, what is that?
  67. p. 33, line 23The insignificant is as big to me as any,
  68. p. 34, line 6And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,
  69. p. 34, line 12And call any thing close again when I desire it.
  70. p. 37, line 19Pleased with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher . . . . looking seriously at the camp-meeting;
  71. p. 37, line 28Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any,
  72. p. 43, line 1I become any presence or truth of humanity here,
  73. p. 43, line 22The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it . . . . or to any graves,
  74. p. 44, line 28And any thing I have I bestow.
  75. p. 45, line 7To any one dying . . . . thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  76. p. 46, line 5Not objecting to special revelations . . . . considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand as curious as any revelation;
  77. p. 47, line 24And know my omniverous words, and cannot say any less,
  78. p. 48, line 31I take my place among you as much as among any;
  79. p. 49, line 14Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
  80. p. 49, line 15Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
  81. p. 49, line 27That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  82. p. 51, line 6And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  83. p. 51, line 19They are but parts . . . . any thing is but a part.
  84. p. 52, line 4Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
  85. p. 54, line 5And any man or woman shall stand cool and supercilious before a million universes.
  86. p. 55, line 8It is not in any dictionary or utterance or symbol.
  87. p. 56, line 1It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadowed wilds,
  88. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  89. p. 59, line 17Or in the census returns or assessors' returns or prices current or any accounts of stock.
  90. p. 62, line 1The plumbob and trowel and level . . the wall-scaffold, and the work of walls and ceilings . . or any mason-work:
  91. p. 79, line 9To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . . what is this then?
  92. p. 79, line 10I do not ask any more delight . . . . I swim in it as in a sea.
  93. p. 86, line 4Nothing for any one but what is for him . . . . near and far are for him,
  94. p. 86, line 5The ships in the offing . . . . the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
  95. p. 86, line 20He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men . . and any man translates . . and any man translates himself also:
  96. p. 87, line 15They are not vile any more . . . . they hardly know themselves, they are so grown.
  97. p. 92, line 12I cannot say to any person what I hear . . . . I cannot say it to myself . . . . it is very wonderful.
  98. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.
  99. p. 93, line 12It is good to live in this age . . . . there never was any better.
  100. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,
  101. p. 94, line 14If there be any soul there is truth . . . . if there be man or woman there is truth . . . . If there be physical or moral there is truth,
  102. p. 95, line 4It cannot be varied by statutes any more than love or pride or the attraction of gravity can,
  103. p. 95, line 12I do not know what it is any more than I know what health is . . . . but I know it is great.