Leaves Of Grass Quotes

• 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

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• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Song of Myself " l. 1324 (written 1855)

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• 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

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• Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Land, Water, Self Reliance

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.189, Routledge

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• Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

  Happiness, Respect, Kindness

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• The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Nature, Rude

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.232, NYU Press

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• And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Flesh, Fluency, Alms

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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  Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

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• What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

  Walt Whitman

  Eye, Print, Seems

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.30, University of Iowa Press

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• Do anything, but let it produce joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Carpe Diem, Joy

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• We were together. I forget the rest.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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• 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, Ends

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

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• 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

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• NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Life Journey, Wander

  Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.45, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  Objects

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.79, NYU Press

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Sleep, Air

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

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• I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

  Walt Whitman

  Self Esteem, Goodness, Knows

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.229, NYU Press

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• In the faces of men and women, I see God.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Men, Faces

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

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• A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Children, Hands

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6

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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Christmas, Gratitude, Dark

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

  Walt Whitman

  Battle, Spirit, Losing

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 18

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• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Animal, Earth

  "Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Ears

  Walt Whitman, “To You”

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