Quotes by Walt Whitman

“We were together. I forget the rest.”

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

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,Or stand under the trees in the woods,Or talk by day with any one I love,Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...What stranger miracles are there?”

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

“NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.”

“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”

“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”

“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

“The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

“These are the days that must happen to you.”