Walt Whitman Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

  Walt Whitman

  Empathy, Leaves Of Grass, Feels

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.110, Psychology Press

• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry
  wood, and her children gazing on;
  The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the
  fence, blowing and covered with sweat,
  The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck,
  The murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  All these I feel or am.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Children, Sweat

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  People, Empathy

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.25, NYU Press

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