Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Nothing endures but personal qualities.

  Walt Whitman

  Personal Qualities, Quality, Endurance

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

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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 “Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index”, p.2148, NYU Press

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• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  Walt Whitman

  Encouragement, Get Well, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

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

  Walt Whitman

  Long, Forget, Ecstasy

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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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• 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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• 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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• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Dark

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

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

  Walt Whitman

  Profound, Perfect, Miracle

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

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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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• 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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• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

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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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• Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Pursue, Inhibitions

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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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• These are the days that must happen to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Leaves Of Grass, Happens

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

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• The art of art... is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Artist, Simplicity

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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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