Walt Whitman: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”

“I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.”

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you”

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”

“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them”

“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”

“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”

“I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.”

“Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid”

“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

“For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!”

“Give me solitude — give me Nature — give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!”

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

“I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.”

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.”