Walt Whitman Quotes

إني أرى شيئا من الله كل ساعة من الساعات الأربع والعشرين
وكل لحظة في وجوه الرجال والنساء أرى الله
وفي وجهي أمام المرآة.
فإنني أرى رسائل من الله ملقاة في الشوارع
وكل رسالة موقعة من الله
وأنا أترك الرسائل مكانها
فأنا أعلم أنني حيثما حللت
فإن رسائل أخرى ستظل تجيء ٬ إلى الأبد

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.

I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair those losses and be a blessing to us.

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

Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached

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

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

[From the preface to Leaves Grass]

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

The paths to the house I seek to make,
But leave to those to come the house itself.

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books,You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion, The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love, The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther, But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.

If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good help to you nevertheless
And filter and fiber your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop some where waiting for you

And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier. If no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content.