Walt Whitman Quotes

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

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

And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, / breaking out, the eternal stars. – Bivouac on a Mountain Side; Whitman

Resist much, obey little.

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

Happiness is not in another place, but in this place … not for another hour … but this hour.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part in its best light.

All truths wait in all things. They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

Peace is always beautiful.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then...I contradict myself. I am large...I contain multitudes.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

...dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem;
I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling…

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem;
I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.