Walt Whitman Quotes

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Walt Whitman

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 31, 1819

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

Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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We convince by our presence.

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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

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.

Walt Whitman

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

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

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

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.

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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.

Walt Whitman

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.

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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Walt Whitman

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.

Walt Whitman