Walt Whitman Quotes

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

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

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

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

Wisdom is not finally tested by 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.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

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

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?

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

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

Resist much, obey little.

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I see light at the end of the tunnel.

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

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

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

I and this mystery, here we stand.

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

I hate commas in the wrong places.