Walt Whitman Quotes

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  Peace is always beautiful…

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry
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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

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness
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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

• 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

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in America, Sports

  Tags in Baseball, American

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speak, Journalist, Communication, Desire

• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Week, Defiance, People, Enter, Tyranny, Spirit, Journalist, Day

• I accept reality and dare not question it.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist, Reality, Dare

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in God

  Tags in Objects, Behold, Understand, Mankind, Curious

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Humanism, Women, Men

• I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Midnight, Loose, Drink, Journalist, Men

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Great, Journalist, Men

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Composed, Universes, Cool

• To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unspeakably, Miracle

• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Wonder, Opposites, Miracle

Walt Whitman (117)

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

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