Walt Whitman Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Do anything, but let it produce joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

• O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Struggle, Gun

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

• To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Madness, Hours

  Walt Whitman (1947). “Leaves of Grass”

• O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Army, Power

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.335, NYU Press

• Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Long, Joy

  Walt Whitman, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!”

• Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Knowledge, Joy

  'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' st. 14

• O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Lightning, Spirit

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.334, NYU Press

• Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Blood, People

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.231, NYU Press

• O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Lightning, Spirit

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.334, NYU Press

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