Walt Whitman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Inspirational, Crazy

  Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

• Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

  Walt Whitman

  Equality, Rights, Giving

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.425, NYU Press

• When I give, I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance, Helping Others, Giving

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

• The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

  Walt Whitman

  Relationship, Happiness, Generosity

  Walt Whitman (1964). “Walt Whitman's workshop: A collection of unpublished manuscripts”, Russell & Russell Publishers

• Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Garden, Giving

  'Give me the splendid silent sun'

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

  Walt Whitman

  Softball, Sports, Baseball

• The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

  Walt Whitman

  Heart, Moon, Light

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Solitude, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.81, North Atlantic Books

• Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Giving, Manhattan

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.280, St. Martin's Press

• I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Money, Hands

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.238, NYU Press

• Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go.

  Walt Whitman

  Letting Go, Dream, Giving Up

• Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

  Walt Whitman

  Autumn, Giving, Juicy

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.57, New York Review of Books

• Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
  We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss.
  Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
  So long!And I hope we shall meet again.

  Walt Whitman

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Giving

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.333, NYU Press

• I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

  Walt Whitman

  Military, Giving, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Leaves of Grass: Top Classic Poetry”, p.76, 谷月社

• We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

  Walt Whitman

  Giving, Divinity, May

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.89, NYU Press

• As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, America, Yellowstone

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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