Top 100 Quotes About Walt Whitman
#1. I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy
Walt Whitman
#3. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
#4. What doesn't kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs, dries out all your tears, leaves you lying awake at 4 in the morning
wishing you weren't alive.
Walt Whitman
#5. The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss ... it is inevitable as life.
Walt Whitman
#6. The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ...
Walt Whitman
#7. This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
Walt Whitman
#8. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#9. We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in love? Isn't that the most amazing thing we can do?
Walt Whitman
#10. There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
#11. I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
Walt Whitman
#12. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Walt Whitman
#13. Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
Walt Whitman
#14. Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
Walt Whitman
#15. Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
Walt Whitman
#16. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Walt Whitman
#17. It is that something in the soul which says, - Rage on, whirl on, I tread master here and everywhere; master of the spasms of the sky and of the shatter of the sea, master of nature and passion and death, and of all terror and all pain.
Walt Whitman
#18. O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice!
O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths!
O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb!
A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
Walt Whitman
#19. You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
Walt Whitman
#20. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
#21. TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
Walt Whitman
#22. To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow,
Walt Whitman
#23. So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Walt Whitman
#24. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman
#26. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman
#27. What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
My gait is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
Walt Whitman
#28. But where is what I started for so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?
Walt Whitman
#29. I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
Walt Whitman
#30. 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
Robert Gottlieb
#31. Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
Walt Whitman
#32. I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
Walt Whitman
#33. I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened.
Walt Whitman
#34. Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.
As if I were not puzzled at myself!
Walt Whitman
#35. To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
#36. To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?
Walt Whitman
#37. I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
Walt Whitman
#39. O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
Walt Whitman
#40. Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman
#41. Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as a warp of prose amid the weft of poetry,
Walt Whitman
#42. Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together.
Walt Whitman
#43. My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed ... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.
Walt Whitman
#44. I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
Walt Whitman
#45. Be composed
be at ease with me
I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
Walt Whitman
#46. Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."
-from "Starting from Paumanok
Walt Whitman
#48. I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.
A.S. King
#49. All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Walt Whitman
#50. The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
Walt Whitman
#51. And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman
#52. Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.
Walt Whitman
#53. Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
Walt Whitman
#54. There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
Walt Whitman
#55. Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls. Walt Whitman
Jed McKenna
#56. Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
#57. What has miserable, inefficient Mexico ... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
Walt Whitman
#58. Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
Walt Whitman
#59. Of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
Walt Whitman
#60. Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;
Walt Whitman
#61. There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
Walt Whitman
#62. Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you ...
Walt Whitman
#63. I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman
#64. I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
#65. Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
Walt Whitman
#66. Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.
Walt Whitman
#67. A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
Walt Whitman
#68. I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
#69. The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
Walt Whitman
#70. The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Walt Whitman
#71. Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
Walt Whitman
#72. My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them
Walt Whitman
#73. Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, but you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
Walt Whitman
#74. It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
Walt Whitman
#75. What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
Walt Whitman
#76. To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
#77. Great is life ... and real and mystical ... wherever and whoever, Great is death ... Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together; Sure as the stars return again after they merge on the light, death is as great as life.
Walt Whitman
#78. The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
Walt Whitman
#79. The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
Walt Whitman
#80. The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Walt Whitman
#81. Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
Walt Whitman
#82. Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
Walt Whitman
#83. I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.
Walt Whitman
#84. Am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness. - Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Anonymous
#85. The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.
Walt Whitman
#86. Walt Whitman, who worked as a nurse in the hospital wards, that the harrowing experience made one's "little cares and difficulties" disappear "into nothing.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#88. I wander all night in my vision,
Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers ...
Walt Whitman
#89. I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
Walt Whitman
#90. I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
Walt Whitman
#91. I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
in any iota of the world;
I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
I have supposed.
Walt Whitman
#92. I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.
Walt Whitman
#93. I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house,
And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
Walt Whitman
#94. This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.
Dorothy Parker
#95. These are the days that must happen to you.
Walt Whitman
#96. Thought
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly
affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who
do not believe in men.
Walt Whitman
#97. Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
Walt Whitman
#98. Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
Walt Whitman
#99. The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
#100. Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
Walt Whitman
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