Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior? — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness, I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times, Now… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“As I see my soul reflected in Nature, As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty, See the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I have said that the soul is not more than the body And the body not more than the soul And nothing,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health;… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Sure as the most certain sure … plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“We descend upon you and all things—we arrest you all; We realize the soul only by you, you faithful solids and fluids;… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Henceforth let no man of us lie, for we have seen that openness wins the inner and outer world and that there… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Demon or bird! (said the boy’s soul,) Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it mostly to me? For… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O soul, thou pleasest me—I thee; Sailing these seas, or on the hills, or waking in the night, Thoughts, silent thoughts, of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Here is the test of wisdom, Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
“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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. — Walt Whitman Copy Share
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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share
