Walt Whitman quotes - page 9

Happiness, not in another place but this place... not for another hour, but this hour. (Walt Whitman)
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, and the stars. View quote
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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. View quote
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The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs! View quote
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Wisdom is not finally tested in 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. View quote
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. View quote
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election. View quote
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Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations - many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. (Walt Whitman)
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue. View quote
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All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. View quote
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Argue not concerning God,...re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul... View quote
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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean But I shall be good health to you nonetheless And filter and fibre your blood. View quote
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me. View quote
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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. View quote
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I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder. View quote
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it makes such differenceyou read. View quote
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. View quote
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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. (Walt Whitman)
The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. View quote
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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. View quote
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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you. View quote
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Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid. View quote
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