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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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

Moments, Define You

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We were together. I forget the rest.

Walt Whitman

Love, Funny, Romantic

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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

Perfect, Miracle, Hours

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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

"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 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.

Walt Whitman

Teacher, Faces, Helping

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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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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.

Walt Whitman

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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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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I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

Walt Whitman

Boots, Hats

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.148, Psychology Press

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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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If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Walt Whitman

Conceited, Done, Bragging

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

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

Walt Whitman

Men, Soul, Infinite

Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman

Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

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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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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

Funny, Friendship, Believe

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

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

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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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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.

Walt Whitman

Animal, Sky, America

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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

Love, Inspirational, Crazy

Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

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