Quotes by Walt Whitman

“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote...By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”

“Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

“Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”

“Either define the moment or the moment will define you.”

“This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

“When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.”

“The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.”