Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Truth, Soul

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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• The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Song

  "Leaves of Grass".

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• Those who love each other shall become invincible.

  Walt Whitman

  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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• 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 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Worry, Waiting

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

  Walt Whitman

  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

  Walt Whitman

  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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• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

  Walt Whitman

  Wisdom, School, Soul

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

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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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• What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

  Walt Whitman

  Eye, Leaves Of Grass, Print

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.30, University of Iowa Press

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• The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

  Walt Whitman

  Relationship, Happiness, Generosity

  Walt Whitman (1964). “Walt Whitman's workshop: A collection of unpublished manuscripts”, Russell & Russell Publishers

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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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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Christmas, Gratitude, Dark

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

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• O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Dream, Your Side

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.406, NYU Press

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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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• The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

  Walt Whitman

  Long, Forget, Ecstasy

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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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• I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

  Walt Whitman

  Empathy, Leaves Of Grass, Feels

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.110, Psychology Press

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• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Tyrants, People

  Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). “Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index”, p.2148, NYU 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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• 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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• Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

  Walt Whitman

  Sail

  "The Untold Want" l. 1 (1871)

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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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• The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

  Walt Whitman

  Purpose, Whole, One Thing

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