Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Walt Whitman quotes, Walt Whitman sayings, and Walt Whitman proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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An old man's thought of School; / An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself cannot. / Now only do I know you! / O fair auroral skies! O morning dew upon the grass! / And these I see--these sparkling eyes, / These stores of mystic meaning--these young lives, / Building, equipping, like a fleet of ships--immortal ships! /Soon to sail out over the measureless seas, / On the Soul's voyage.Walt Whitman
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The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does not fail;Walt Whitman
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With perfect health, there are no low spirits and cannot be.Walt Whitman
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Whoever you are, holding me now in hand, / Without one thing, all will be useless,/ I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further, /I am not what you supposed, but far different.Walt Whitman
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.Walt Whitman
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All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.Walt Whitman
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Singing something yet unfound, though I have diligently sought it, many a long year; singing the true song of the Soul, fitful, at random; singing what, to the Soul, entirely redeem'd her, the faithful one.Walt Whitman
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Singing my days, singing the great achievements of the present.Walt Whitman
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We were together. I forget the rest.Walt Whitman
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I hear quick rifle-cracks from the riflemen of East Tennessee and Kentucky, hunting on hills.Walt Whitman
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To you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler . . . Up! The world (perhaps you now look upon it with pallid and disgusted eyes) is full of zest and beauty for you, if you approach it in the right spirit!Walt Whitman
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We were together. I forget the rest.Walt Whitman
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won. / O Captain! My Captain! Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread / Walk the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and dead. / O captain! My Captain!Walt Whitman
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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.Walt Whitman
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Women sit, or move to and fro--some old, some young; / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the / young.Walt Whitman
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O from his masterful sweep, the warning cry of the eagle!Walt Whitman
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The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts! / The city nested in bays! my city! / The city of such women, I am mad with them! I will return after death to be with them! / The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy, without I often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep, with them!Walt Whitman
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City of orgies, walks and joys! / City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make / you illustrious,Walt Whitman
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.Walt Whitman
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.Walt Whitman
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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.Walt Whitman
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To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come; / Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.Walt Whitman
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Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt, / Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee, / In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night, / Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game, / Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.Walt Whitman
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The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts! / The city nested in bays! my city! / The city of such women, I am mad with them! I will return after death to be with them! / The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy, without I often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep, with them! Walt Whitman
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The great place of the western continent, the heart, the brain, the focus, the main spring, the pinnacle, the extremity, the no more beyond, of the New World. Walt Whitman
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Nothing external to me has any power over me.Walt Whitman
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.Walt Whitman