Walt Whitman Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• 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

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Individual, Theory

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.206, NYU Press

• 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

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

  Walt Whitman

  Purpose, Whole, One Thing

• 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

• All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

  Walt Whitman

  Profound, Perfect, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.184, St. Martin's Press

• All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Action, Procession

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80

• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Profound, Perfect

  Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Years, Hearing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

• 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

  Men, Order, Two

  Walt Whitman (1961). “Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition”, p.22, Penguin

• Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
  Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
  And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Evil, Roaming, Littles

  Walt Whitman, “Roaming In Thought”

• Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Should, Knows

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  Walt Whitman

  Squash, Little Things, Hub

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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