Walt Whitman Quotes

Walt Whitman (89)

Birth:	31st May, 1819
Death:	26th March, 1892
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Humanist, Journalist, Poet

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• When I give, I give myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

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• Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Expectations, Inspirational

• Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

  Walt Whitman

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  Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the she down will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Sunshine, Face, Fall

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  Walt Whitman

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  Tags in Poetry

• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

  Walt Whitman

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• I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Poetry

• Resist much, obey little.

  Walt Whitman

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  Peace is always beautiful…

  Walt Whitman

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

  Walt Whitman

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

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  Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Soul, Truth

  Tags in Satisfaction, Whatever, Satisfies
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  A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Necessary, Possibilities

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Him, Poet, Poetry, Journalist

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Philosophy, Book

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Journalist, Book

• I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Envy, Sticks, Obesity, Fat, Find, Journalist, Bone

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Offer, Postpone, Stood, Propositions, Fool, Advance, Bigot

• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Won, Losers and Losing, Journalist, Day, Battle

• I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in America, Sports

  Tags in Baseball, American