Walt Whitman Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
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.
Long and long has the grass been growing,
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round.
Long and long has the rain been falling,
Long has the globe been rolling round.
Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;
Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy air, the air of slaves,
Like lightning Europe le'pt forth,
Sombre, superb and terrible.
Like lightning Europe le'pt forth,
Sombre, superb and terrible.
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.
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico ... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
From imperfection's murkiest cloud,
Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
One flash of Heaven's glory."
-from "Song of the Universal
Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,
One flash of Heaven's glory."
-from "Song of the Universal
The poet is individual - he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.
I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do."
Me imperturbe
Me imperturbe
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.
I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ...
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ...
What will be will be well - for what is is well,
To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.
To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.
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.
See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that,
Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that."
-from "Song of Myself
Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that."
-from "Song of Myself
The earth recedes from me into the night, I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.