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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We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

Love, Funny, Romantic

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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

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Profound, Perfect, Miracle

Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.184, St. Martin's Press

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

Walt Whitman

Truth, Simple, Complicated

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Friendship, Family

Walt Whitman, “I Sing The Body Electric”

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Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

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A man can be a hero in any profession

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Hero, Men, Profession

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Resist much, obey little.

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Life, Powerful, Dead Poets Society

Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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These are the days that must happen to you.

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Life, Leaves Of Grass, Happens

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

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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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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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

Walt Whitman

Thinking Of You, Sunshine, Thinking About You

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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Soul, Insult, Your Soul

Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.39

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