Walt Whitman Quotes

I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
My words itch at your ears till you understand them.

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Stop this day and night with me, and you shall possess the origin of all poems,

Ezen a napon, ó, Lélek, csodás tükröt adok neked;
Sokáig hevert a sötétben, piszokban és ködben – De a köd eloszlott, vaksága eltűnt;
…Nézd csak, ó, Lélek! tiszta és ragyogó ez a tükör,
Híven mutatja neked a világ minden dolgát.

"Da "Ahimè! Ah vita!"

Ahimè! Ah vita! di queste domande che ricorrono,
degli infiniti cortei di senza fede, di città piene di sciocchi,
di me stesso che sempre mi rimprovero, (perché chi più sciocco di me, e chi più senza fede?)
di occhi che invano bramano la luce, di meschini scopi, della battaglia sempre rinnovata,
dei poveri risultati di tutto, della folla che vedo sordida camminare a fatica attorno a me,
dei vuoti ed inutili anni degli altri, io con gli altri legato in tanti nodi,
la domanda, ahimè, la domanda così triste che ricorre - Cosa c'è di buono in tutto questo, ahimè, ah vita?

Risposta
Che tu sei qui - che esiste la vita e l'individuo, che il potete spettacolo continua, e tu puoi contribuirvi con un tuo verso."

The myth of heaven indicates peace and night. The myth of heaven indicates the soul; The soul is always beautiful . . . it appears more or it appears less . . . it comes or lags behind,

Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.

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

Yes, Mexico must be thoroughly chastised! Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, while we are not forward for a quarrel, American knows how to crush, as well as expand!

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.

Be curious, not judgmental.

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;
I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

Now obey thy cherished secret wish,
Embrace thy friends—leave all in order;
To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor!

Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.

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