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“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
- Walt Whitman |
“Happiness, not in another place but
this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
- Walt Whitman |
“Resist much, obey little.”
- Walt Whitman |
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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 |
“Do I contradict myself? Very well,
then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“We were together. I forget the rest.”
- Walt Whitman |
“I have learned that to be with those I
like is enough”
- Walt Whitman |
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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank
God, I am as good as the best. ”
- Walt Whitman |
“The poet judges not as a judge judges
but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I
don't believe I deserved my friends.”
- Walt Whitman |
“These are the days that must happen to
you.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“I do not ask the wounded person how
he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
- Walt Whitman, |
“If you want me again look for me
under your boot soles.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“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.”
- Walt Whitman |
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“Some people are so much sunshine to
the square inch.”
- Walt Whitman |
“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd
of limits and imaginary lines.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“Every moment of light and dark is a
miracle.”
- Walt Whitman |
“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.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“There is no God any more divine than
Yourself.”
- Walt Whitman |
“This hour I tell things in
confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”
- Walt Whitman
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“The future is no more uncertain than
the present.”
- Walt Whitman |
“You will hardly know who I am or what
I mean”
- Walt Whitman |
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“I hear and behold God in every
object, yet understand God not in the least.”
- Walt Whitman |
“To me, every hour of the day and night
is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“My words itch at your ears till you
understand them”
- Walt Whitman, |
“To have great poets, there must be great
audiences.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand
to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.”
- Walt Whitman, |
“I swear to you, there are divine
things more beautiful than words can tell”
- Walt Whitman |
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“But where is what I started for so
long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?” - Walt Whitman |
“I celebrate myself, and what I
assume, you shall assume,for every atom belong to me as good belongs
to you.”
- Walt Whitman, |
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“I will You, in all, Myself, with
promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.”
- Walt Whitman, |
“Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.” ― Walt Whitman |
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“Nothing can happen more beautiful than
death. ”
- Walt Whitman |
“To the real artist in humanity, what
are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ”
- Walt Whitman |
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“If anything is sacred, the human body
is sacred.”
- Walt Whitman |
“I refuse putting from me the best
that I am.”
- Walt Whitman |
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“Agonies are one of my changes of
garments.”
- Walt Whitman |
“What is that you express in your
eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.”
- Walt Whitman |
