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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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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Perfect, Miracle, Hours

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

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

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Teacher, Faces, Helping

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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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What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

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Horse, Freedom, Soul

Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.186

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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.

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Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman

Inspiration, Enough

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.26, NYU Press

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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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We convince by our presence.

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Life, Time

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

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The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

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Beautiful, Country, Men

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NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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Travel, Leaves Of Grass, Life Journey

Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.45, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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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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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Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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Simple, Expression, Simplicity

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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

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Thinking Of You, Sunshine, Thinking About You

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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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If you done it, it ain't bragging.

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Conceited, Done, Bragging

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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.

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Men, Soul, Infinite

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

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