Walt Whitman Quotes, Country Quotes, Leaves Of Grass Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Country Quotes , Leaves Of Grass Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Giving Quotes , Solitude Quotes

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Equality Quotes , Rights Quotes

There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , New York Quotes , Pride Quotes

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Charity Quotes

These are the days that must happen to you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Life Quotes , Leaves Of Grass Quotes

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Faces Quotes

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Sad Quotes

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Needs Quotes

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Reading Quotes , Book Quotes

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Animal Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Country Quotes

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Doors Quotes , Library Quotes

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Book Quotes , Light Quotes

I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Summer Quotes , Ease Quotes

You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Investing Quotes , Want Quotes

I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Space Quotes , East Quotes

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Agony Quotes

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Names Quotes , Promise Quotes