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Top 46 Walt Whitman Quotes (LEAVES OF GRASS)

Top 10 Most Famous Walt Whitman Quotes (BEST)

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.Pin
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.Pin
Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.Pin
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.Pin
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.Pin
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Be curious, not judgmental.Pin
Be curious, not judgmental.
Resist much, obey little.Pin
Resist much, obey little.
Either define the moment or the moment will define you.Pin
Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.Pin
Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.Pin
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

12 Inspirational Walt Whitman Quotes About Life

“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
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.Pin
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.Pin
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.Pin
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail.Pin
The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
Peace is always beautiful.Pin
Peace is always beautiful.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.Pin
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.Pin
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.Pin
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.Pin
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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.Pin
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.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.Pin
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Walt Whitman Quotes on Love

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.Pin
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

8 Wise Walt Whitman Quotes to Live By (WISDOM)

We were together. I forget the rest.Pin
We were together. I forget the rest.
Do anything, but let it produce joy.Pin
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.Pin
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.Pin
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.Pin
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.Pin
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.Pin
Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.Pin
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

12 Walt Whitman Quotes That Will Make You Think

“The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”

Walt Whitman
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.Pin
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.Pin
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.Pin
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
I hate commas in the wrong places.Pin
I hate commas in the wrong places.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.Pin
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.Pin
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give, I give myself.Pin
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give, I give myself.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.Pin
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.Pin
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.Pin
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.Pin
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

3 Walt Whitman Quotes on Death

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.Pin
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.Pin
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.Pin
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

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