54 result(s) for Walt Whitman Quotes.
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
"This is the city and I am one of the citizens."
"The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood of the moment."
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfies...what remains? Nature remains."
"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles."
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
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"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness."
"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me."
"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals."
"Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul."
"Either define the moment or the moment will define you."
"To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle."
"Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself."
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles."
"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
"To be curious about the universe is a great virtue."
"We were together. I forget the rest."
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"Simplicity is the glory of expression."
"The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung."
"In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word."
"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."
"The future is no more uncertain than the present."
"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."
"Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour."
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
"Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me."
"Silence is not a crime."
"It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great – it is I who am great or to be great by them."
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
"Resist much, obey little."
"I exist as I am, that is enough."
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
"Happiness, not in another place but this place...not on another hour, but this hour."
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."
"Be curious, not judgmental."
"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself."
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle."
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