Walt Whitman Quotes

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Walt Whitman

Happiness, Nature, Carpe Diem

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

Moments, Define You

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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone 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 ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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Perfect, Miracle, Hours

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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

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Truth, Simple, Complicated

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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Walt Whitman

Teacher, Faces, Helping

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

Life, Meaningful, Judging

Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

Love, Funny, Romantic

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
What stranger miracles are there?

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Summer, Beach, Stars

Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Walt Whitman

Beautiful, Nature, Rude

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

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These are the days that must happen to you.

Walt Whitman

Life, Leaves Of Grass, Happens

Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Walt Whitman

Relationship, Happiness, Generosity

Walt Whitman (1964). “Walt Whitman's workshop: A collection of unpublished manuscripts”, Russell & Russell Publishers

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

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Night, Thinking, Waiting

Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.92, University of Iowa Press

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Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman

Life, Invincible, Love Each Other

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.373, NYU Press

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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

Walt Whitman

Beautiful, Spiritual, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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Country, Tyrants, People

Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). “Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index”, p.2148, NYU Press

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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman

Empathy, Leaves Of Grass, Feels

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.110, Psychology Press

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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers.
And I become the other dreamers.

Walt Whitman

Dream, Dreamer

Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.71

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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

Walt Whitman

Perfection, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Life, Future

Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

Walt Whitman

Thinking, Government, Office

Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom, School, Soul

Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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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

Eye, Leaves Of Grass, Print

Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.30, University of Iowa Press

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