Walt Whitman Quotes

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

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  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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• 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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• We were together. I forget the rest.

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  Love, Funny, Romantic

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  Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

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  Moments, Define You

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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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• 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?

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Beach, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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

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  Teacher, Faces, Helping

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

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

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• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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  Writing, Worry, Waiting

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• Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

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  Land, Water, Self Reliance

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.189, Routledge

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• Be curious, not judgmental.

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  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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• 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.

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  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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• Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.

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  Animal, Sky, America

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• Those who love each other shall become invincible.

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  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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• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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  Simple, Expression, Simplicity

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• Resist much, obey little.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• I and this mystery, here we stand.

  Walt Whitman

  Mystery

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

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• The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

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  Failing, Giver

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

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• 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.

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  Book, School, Eye

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

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• My words itch at your ears till you understand them

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Ears

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.191, Psychology Press

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• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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  Encouragement, Get Well, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

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• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

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  Light, Long, Healthy

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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