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Love Quotes by Walt Whitman

76 Love quotes by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman writes love as a bond that makes a person part of the land they cherish. He offers his hand and love as more valuable than money, and he believes true love never goes unanswered. The verses also speak of present perfection and hidden truths that wait in every thing.

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I know perfectly well my own egotism.

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I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

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All truths wait in all things.

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Where the earth is, we are.

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We were together. I forget the rest.

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We were together, I have forgotten the rest.

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Whoever degrades another degrades me.

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I dance with the dancers.

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I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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“Tenderly, be not impatient, (Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, Strong is your hold O love.)”

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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

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I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

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“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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“I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house, And I swear I never will translate myself at all,…

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Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or…

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Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with…

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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with…

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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say…

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We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in…

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“The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul…

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“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.”

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The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day…

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“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence…

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Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the…

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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your…

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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,…

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“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever…

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“The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be…

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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is…

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“Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold! Already you see I have escaped from you. For it is…

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“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:…

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Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of…

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“O something unprov’d! something in a trance! O madness amorous! O trembling! O to escape utterly from others’ anchors and holds! To…

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“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state…

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“O you singer, solitary, singing by yourself—projecting me; O solitary me, listening—nevermore shall I cease perpetuating you; Never more shall I escape,…

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“ Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm…

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“Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I…

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal…

Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I…

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…

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“it makes such difference where you read”

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of…

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…

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

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…