Walt Whitman Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

• Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Limitless, Individual

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.174, NYU Press

• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Animal, Leaves Of Grass

  "Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

• I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Dark, Animal

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

• I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Men, Cities

  'I dreamed in a dream'

• 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”

• 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

• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

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

• The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Want, Wells

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 8

• And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Dimes, Leaves Of Grass, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.79, NYU Press

• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Men, Squares

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.96, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, Eye, Night

  "Song of Myself " l. 33 (written 1855)

• TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

  Walt Whitman

  Cities, Liberty, Earth

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.21, Xist Publishing

• Where the earth is, we are.

  Walt Whitman

  Environmental, Earth

• The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

  Walt Whitman

  Spring, Feet, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.53, Psychology Press

• I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Garden, Broken

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

• Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go.

  Walt Whitman

  Letting Go, Dream, Giving Up

• O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
  O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
  O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
  A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Land, Voice

  Walt Whitman (1871). “Leaves of Grass: Passage to India”, p.87

• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Environmental, Haste

  'To the sayers of words' 2

• My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

  Walt Whitman

  Determination, Thinking, Compassion

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.175, NYU Press

• Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

  Walt Whitman

  Long, Acres, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

• Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  Smile, for your lover comes!

  Walt Whitman

  Sunset, Dark, Moon

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.42, Routledge

• There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Theory, Accounts

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

• I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Sky, Sake

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.279, NYU Press

• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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