Walt Whitman Quotes

Biography: Walt Whitman is known for his groundbreaking poetry collection "Leaves... more Biography: Walt Whitman is known for his groundbreaking poetry collection "Leaves of Grass." Born in 1819, Whitman's work celebrated democracy, nature, love, and friendship. His innovative free verse style greatly influenced American literature. Whitman is often regarded as one of the nation's most important poets. less

"You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.""I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.""Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.""Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?""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 goes onward and outward, nothing collapses""A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books""I sing the body electric""I am he that walks with the tender and growing night""Nothing endures but personal qualities""Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling""Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me""The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual""The light is the same as it always was""Silence? What can be better than to sit thus by the hour and be soothed with the world""The sum of the parts and of all wholses is the Soul""I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious""Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself""The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse""The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse"

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