Walt Whitman Quotes

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

I like the scientific spirit - the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine - it always keeps the way beyond open - always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake - after a wrong guess.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

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

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…

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

Of Equality-as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself-as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

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.

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

Resist much, obey little.