Walt Whitman Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  Walt Whitman

  Encouragement, Get Well, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Spiritual, Truth, Soul

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

• 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

• 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.

• A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Soul, Infinite

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

• Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Insult, Your Soul

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.39

• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

  Walt Whitman

  Deep Water, Soul, Risk

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

• What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

  Walt Whitman

  Horse, Freedom, Soul

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.186

• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

  Walt Whitman

  Wisdom, School, Soul

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, School, Eye

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

• this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Art, Stars, Book

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.204, Library of America

• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest.

  Walt Whitman

  Book, School, Reality

• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "Specimen Days & Collect".

• Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

• 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!”

• Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Horse, Soul

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, III”

• I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

  Walt Whitman

  Self, Soul, Body

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

• Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.435, NYU Press

• And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Body, Ifs

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.118, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Light, Ohio

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Sun, Calm

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

• I sing the body electric,
  The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
  And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Army, Soul, Body

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

• I loafe and invite my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Invites, My Soul

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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