Quotes About Solidness

Whitman was coming to think that he, above all, was the one chosen to agitate the country. He wrote in his 1856 notebook: "Agitation is the test of the goodness and solidness of all politics and laws and institutions.—If they cannot stand it, there is no genuine life in them, and shall die." He once declared, "I think agitation is the most important factor of all—the most deeply important. To stir, to question, to suspect, to examine, to denounce!

I suddenly like his solidness and sense of permanence, as if what you see is what you get, and he will always be and do exactly what you expect him to be and do.

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

a solid, unbreakable-looking build, like he had been cast all in one slab.