Walt Whitman Quotes
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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
— Walt Whitman
Stout as a horse
— Walt Whitman
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman
[Give me the splendid silent sun] — Walt Whitman
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
— Walt Whitman
But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead.
— Walt Whitman
And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN
— Jack Kornfield
To behold the day-break!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate. — Walt Whitman
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate. — Walt Whitman
All truths wait in all things,
— Walt Whitman
I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul ...
— Walt Whitman
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
— Walt Whitman
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
— Walt Whitman
I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,
— Walt Whitman
Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets,
— Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough.
— Walt Whitman
Long and long has the grass been growing,
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round. — Walt Whitman
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round. — Walt Whitman
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
— Walt Whitman
Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.
— Walt Whitman
My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words
— Walt Whitman
What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
— Walt Whitman
The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
— Walt Whitman
Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. — Walt Whitman
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. — Walt Whitman
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
— Walt Whitman
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
— Walt Whitman
Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
— Walt Whitman
My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.
— Walt Whitman
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
— Walt Whitman
We convince by our presence.
— Walt Whitman
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
— Walt Whitman
— Walt Whitman
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.
— Walt Whitman
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
— Walt Whitman
I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green. — Walt Whitman
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green. — Walt Whitman
Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration!
— Walt Whitman
That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.
— John Green
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name ...
— Walt Whitman
Experience means nothing unless you're paying attention.
— Stephen Smoke
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
— Walt Whitman
Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!
Did it make you ache so, leaving me? — Walt Whitman
Did it make you ache so, leaving me? — Walt Whitman
Many a good man I have seen go under.
— Walt Whitman
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
— Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
— David Lodge
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
— Walt Whitman
Am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness. - Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
— Anonymous
Give me such shows
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman
give me the streets of Manhattan! — Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball.
— Walt Whitman
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
— Walt Whitman
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
— Walt Whitman
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
— Walt Whitman
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
— Walt Whitman
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
— Walt Whitman
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
— Walt Whitman
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
— Mae Whitman
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
— Walt Whitman
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
— Walt Whitman
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
— Andrew Sullivan
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
— Walt Whitman
I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
— Walt Whitman
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.
— Walt Whitman
I love doctors and hate their medicine.
— Walt Whitman
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
— Walt Whitman
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
— Walt Whitman
I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.
— Walt Whitman
I believe that much unseen is also here.
— Walt Whitman
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
— Walt Whitman
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
— Walt Whitman
Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
— Walt Whitman
I tramp a perpetual journey.
— Walt Whitman
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
— Walt Whitman
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
— Walt Whitman
Caution seldom goes far enough.
— Walt Whitman
My words itch at your ears till you understand them
— Walt Whitman
We were together. I forget the rest.
— Walt Whitman
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.
— Walt Whitman
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
— Walt Whitman
Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.
— Walt Whitman
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... — Walt Whitman
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
— Walt Whitman