Walt Whitman Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Sky, Sound

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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

  Walt Whitman

  Purpose, Whole, One Thing

• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

  Walt Whitman

  Ignorance, Democracy, Rulership

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.409, Penguin

• Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.

  Walt Whitman

  Rocks, Purpose, Months

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.24, NYU Press

• For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

  Walt Whitman

  Expression, Purpose, Messages

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.716, NYU Press

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