88+ Walt Whitman Quotes And Saying

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Walt Whitman Quotes

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots. – Walt Whitman

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. – Walt Whitman

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. – Walt Whitman

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. – Walt Whitman

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. – Walt Whitman

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. – Walt Whitman

All truths wait in all things. – Walt Whitman

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles. – Walt Whitman

And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me. – Walt Whitman

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

And your very flesh shall be a great poem. – Walt Whitman

Aquel que camina una sola legua sin amor, camina amortajado hacia su propio funeral. – Walt Whitman

As to me,I know of nothing but miracles. – Walt Whitman

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Be curious, not judgmental. – Walt Whitman

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul. – Walt Whitman

Do anything, but let it produce joy. – Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman

Eravamo insieme. Tutto il resto del mondo l’ho scordato. – Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. – Walt Whitman

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For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy? – Walt Whitman

Freedom – to walk free and own no superior. – Walt Whitman

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman

Give me solitude — give me Nature — give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities! – Walt Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. – Walt Whitman

I accept reality and dare not question it. – Walt Whitman

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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

I believe that much unseen is also here. – Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. – Walt Whitman

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. – Walt Whitman

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood. – Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough. – Walt Whitman

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. – Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends. – Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. – Walt Whitman

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. – Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists. – Walt Whitman

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. – Walt Whitman

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. – Walt Whitman

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. – Walt Whitman

If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. – Walt Whitman

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. – Walt Whitman

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman

Life is the little that is left over from dying. – Walt Whitman

Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. – Walt Whitman

My words itch at your ears till you understand them. – Walt Whitman

Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you. – Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities. – Walt Whitman

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. – Walt Whitman

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman

Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love. – Walt Whitman

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty. – Walt Whitman

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Or may-be one who is puzzled at me. As if I were not puzzled at myself! – Walt Whitman

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. – Walt Whitman

Peace is always beautiful. – Walt Whitman

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. – Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows. – Walt Whitman

Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul. – Walt Whitman

Resist much, obey little. – Walt Whitman

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries. – Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression. – Walt Whitman

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. – Walt Whitman

Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together. – Walt Whitman

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. – Walt Whitman

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. – Walt Whitman

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. – Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman

The past and the present wilt. I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. – Walt Whitman

The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me. – Walt Whitman

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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. – Walt Whitman

The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer. – Walt Whitman

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. – Walt Whitman

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are. – Walt Whitman

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. – Walt Whitman

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. – Walt Whitman

There will never be any more perfection than there is now. – Walt Whitman

These are the days that must happen to you. – Walt Whitman

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls. – Walt Whitman

To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow. – Walt Whitman

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. – Walt Whitman

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body. – Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

We are convinced by our presence. – Walt Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest. – Walt Whitman

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well. – Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. – Walt Whitman

When I give I give myself. – Walt Whitman

Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious? – Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. – Walt Whitman

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough. – Walt Whitman

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. – Walt Whitman

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. – Walt Whitman