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Walt Whitman Quotes

Total quotes: 42
“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
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, and accrue what I hear into myself.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Listening, Solitude, Self-Analysis, Lonesome
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
— Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman
Tagged: Art, beauty, glory, Simplicity, Simple, creating
“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, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Love, Loving, Relationship, personal, Emotion, Connection, Sensual
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Sunshine, Shadows, Inspirational, Good Morning Quotes, Positivity
“I too pass from the night,
I stay a while O night, but I return to you again and love you.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: nighttime, Night, Love, Lover, Relationship, Secret, Secret Love
“The sea is not surer of the shore, or the shore of the sea, then he is of the fruition of his love, and of all perfection and beauty.”
— Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman
Tagged: Love, Nature, beauty, Natural, Perception
“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
Tagged: Divine Things, Prose, Poetry
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Self-Trust, Self-Confidence, Self-assurance, Positivity
“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
“The soul is always beautiful”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: beauty, Soul, personal, inner beauty, Life
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Tagged: Advice, motivation
“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
“I am not to speak to you—I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone,
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.”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Attraction, Love, Infatuation, Fall in love, liking someone, poem, Poetry
“Once unquestining obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth,
ever afterward resumes its liberty.”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Freedom, Liberty, Politics, nation
“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
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Tagged: Poetry, Philosophy
“And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them. Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.”
— Walt Whitman, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Tagged: Observer, Absorb, Fly on the Wall, Detached Engagement
“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 the poet of the body,
And I am the poet of the soul.”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Poetry, Poetic, personal, Body and Soul, Body, Soul, Life
“Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
— Walt Whitman, Poems by Walt Whitman
Tagged: self awareness, Improvement, Growth, inner beauty
“Loved! loved! loved! loved! loved!”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Poetic, love quotes, Expression of Love
“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
“...merely touching you, is enough—is best...”
— Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
Tagged: Love, romance, affection, Touch, Feelings of Love
“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
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Instagram Captions, Selfie Captions
“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
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