Quotes by Walt Whitman

Explore a curated collection of 114 quotes by Walt Whitman. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making — Walt Whitman
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. — Walt Whitman
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. — Walt Whitman
Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever in — Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. — Walt Whitman
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, — Walt Whitman
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. — Walt Whitman
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You wi — Walt Whitman
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman
I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. — Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown th — Walt Whitman
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me — Walt Whitman
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unret — Walt Whitman
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose t — Walt Whitman
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman
Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset — Walt Whitman
Song of MyselfI have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of th — Walt Whitman
Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;Bu — Walt Whitman
Song of myselfA child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not — Walt Whitman