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Walt Whitman Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night;
I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Connection, Universe, Walking, Natural, connection with nature
“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, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Secret, Discovering, Growing Up, Growth, live
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
— Walt Whitman, Verse 52 from "Song of Myself"
Tagged: yawp, Express Yourself, Be Passionate, Speak Up For Yourself, Yolo
“Dismiss what insults your soul.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: self, Encouragement, Empowering, Self Construction, Self Care, self awareness, self control, Self-Esteem, haters
“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, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
Tagged: travel, road, Path, Life, Living, Journey, Reach
“Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money, 
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Precious, Gift, Together, Bonded
“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, The Portable Walt Whitman
Tagged: Love, Life, Living, Appreciation, personal, Personality, Optimism, Feeling, inner beauty, self awareness, purpose, Passion
“The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Tagged: Poetry, Pleasure, Pain
“The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
The myth of heaven indicates the soul”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Myth, Belief, Higher Power, Soul, Heaven, Inner Peace
“...I will be your poet,
I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”
— Walt Whitman, The Poems of Walt Whitman
Tagged: Love, romance, Courtship, expressing of feelings, expressing of love, poem, Poetry
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Tagged: Empaths, Emotion, Beautiful, Feeling, Sensitivity, Compassion, gentle, Loving, heart, wounds
“Resist much, obey little”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Resistance, obedience, Life, Living, Thoughts, Decisions
“I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing”
— Walt Whitman, Whitman: The Mystic Poets
Tagged: Happiness, Happy, Emotion, Feeling, Movement, Life, Living, Satisfaction, Fulfillment
“When I give, I give myself.”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
Tagged: Give, Giving, Life, live, self
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Satisfaction, Soul, Truth, Belief, Life, Awareness, Mind
“There are days that must happen to you.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Tagged: Fate, Destiny
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Honest Love, True Love, Together, couple
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Selfie Captions
“I celebrate myself, and I sing myself.”
— Walt Whitman, 39 Beautiful Quotes That Will Make You Love Yourself More
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Confidence, Celebrate Yourself, Celebrate Myself, Selfie Captions
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Brutally Honest, Love, True Love, Couple Fights, Together
“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1892 version)
Tagged: Mistakes, Self Discovery, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Joyful
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