~ Walt Whitman Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

[MysteRy]

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

[MysteRy]

I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

[MysteRy]

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

[MysteRy]

Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

[MysteRy]

I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.

[MysteRy]

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

[MysteRy]

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

[MysteRy]

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

[MysteRy]

It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.

[MysteRy]

The port is near the bells I hear the people all exulting While follow eyes the steady keel the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

[MysteRy]

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned or of dictionary-makers but is something arising out of the work needs ties joys affections tastes of long generations of humanity and has its bases broad and low close to the ground.

[MysteRy]

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's name and I leave them where they are for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.