Walt Whitman Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Worry, Waiting

• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Blood

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

• I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Thinking, Waiting

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.92, University of Iowa Press

• Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Grieving, Waiting, Missing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Children, Men

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.

• All truths wait in all things.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Leaves Of Grass, All Things

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.72, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• 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

• I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

  Walt Whitman

  Years, Waiting, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Needs, Bigs

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.99, University of Iowa Press

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Waiting, Short Death

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

• A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

  Walt Whitman

  Women, Waiting, Wait For Me

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Doe, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

• A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

  Walt Whitman

  Sexy, Men, Waiting

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

• All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Delivery, All Things

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.73, SkyLight Paths Publishing

• 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

• I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Argument, Witness

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.5, NYU Press

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