Walt Whitman Quotes (160 Quotes)



    Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

    This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

    There's a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods wherever he goes there's a welcoming handhe's the man who delivers the goods.

    O lands O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.


    NOT INOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

    Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

    They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

    The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

    Nothing external to me can have any power over me.


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