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.

Walt Whitman

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.

Walt Whitman

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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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

Walt Whitman

Forever, Vision, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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

Walt Whitman

Spiritual, Wisdom, Integrity

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Walt Whitman

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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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?

Walt Whitman

Summer, Beach, Stars

Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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

Walt Whitman

Sail

"The Untold Want" l. 1 (1871)

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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Personal Qualities, Quality, Endurance

Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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

Walt Whitman

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.

Walt Whitman

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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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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I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman

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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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Walt Whitman

Writing, Life Is, Heartbeat

Walt Whitman (2012). “Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals, 1863-1865”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

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Dream, Pursue, Inhibitions

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

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Perfection, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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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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Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

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I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

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Boots, Hats

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.148, Psychology Press

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