Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfection, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking Of You, Sunshine, Thinking About You

  49 Copy quote

• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Stars, Believe

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

  26 Copy quote

• The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

  Walt Whitman

  Trying, President, Meals

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.92, Oxford University Press

  53 Copy quote

• It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Government, Office

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

  11 Copy quote

• I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking About You, Thinking, Minutes

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.85, Courier Corporation

  15 Copy quote

• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

  Walt Whitman

  Lines, Limits, Hours

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

  39 Copy quote

• We convince by our presence.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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

  20 Copy quote

• Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Pursue, Inhibitions

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  60 Copy quote

• In the faces of men and women, I see God.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Men, Leaves Of Grass

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

  45 Copy quote

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

  Walt Whitman

  Horse, Freedom, Soul

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

  9 Copy quote

• I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Objects

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

  27 Copy quote

• 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.

  28 Copy quote

• I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Wonder, Mask

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.554, NYU Press

  15 Copy quote

• Peace is always beautiful.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Peace, Healing

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

  26 Copy quote

• 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

  19 Copy quote

• I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Doubt, Reincarnation

  46 Copy quote

• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

  79 Copy quote

• The art of art... is simplicity.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Artist, Simplicity

  22 Copy quote

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

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

  30 Copy quote

• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Sea, Age, Aging

  69 Copy quote

• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, School, Eye

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

  33 Copy quote

• I and this mystery, here we stand.

  Walt Whitman

  Mystery

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

  55 Copy quote

Page 3 of 20

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin