Walt Whitman Quotes

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

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Moments, Define You

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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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Perfect, Miracle, Hours

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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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Happiness, Nature, Carpe Diem

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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Be curious, not judgmental.

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Life, Meaningful, Judging

Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

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Teacher, Faces, Helping

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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

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Truth, Simple, Complicated

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We were together. I forget the rest.

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Love, Funny, Romantic

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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Learning, Science, Discovery

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.521, NYU Press

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

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As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
What stranger miracles are there?

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Summer, Beach, Stars

Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

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Beautiful, Blood, Brain

Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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Funny, Friendship, Believe

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NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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Travel, Leaves Of Grass, Life Journey

Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.45, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

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Beautiful, Nature, Rude

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

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Purpose, Whole, One Thing

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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

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Sail

"The Untold Want" l. 1 (1871)

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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Inspiration, Enough

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.26, NYU Press

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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

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Dream, Pursue, Inhibitions

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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Encouragement, Get Well, Soul

Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

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Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

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Inspirational, Charity, Personal Worth

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.245, NYU Press

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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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Wisdom, School, Soul

Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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Spiritual, Truth, Soul

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

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Light, Long, Healthy

'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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Born: May 31, 1819
Died: March 26, 1892
Occupation: Poet
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