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Walt Whitman Quotes About Spiritual

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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.

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

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.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman Quotes About Time

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

More Quotes by Walt Whitman

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

The real war will never get in the books.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

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