Walt Whitman Quotes – Discover the Wisdom of a Literary Icon

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

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

O Captain! my Captain! Our fearful trip is done.

A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where on a little promontory, it stood, isolated.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

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

I have learned that nothing is too good for me and that I deserve nothing but perfect happiness.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Be curious, not judgmental.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Walt Whitman Quotes – Discover the Wisdom of a Literary Icon part 2

I say to mankind: Be not curious about God.

I am as natural and uncontrived as any other piece of earth.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

I am as mad as a hatter, but I am free.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals.

I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

The real war will never get in the books.

Now I will do nothing but listen.

I sing the body electric.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks.

I have learned that no matter how difficult the circumstances, I am in control of my attitude and approach.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

I have learned that nothing is too good for me and that I deserve nothing but perfect happiness.

I am as natural and uncontrived as any other piece of earth.

I am as mad as a hatter, but I am free.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

I am large, I contain multitudes.