Religion Quotes by Walt Whitman

18 Religion quotes by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s verses on religion pulse with the same expansive rhythm that made his larger work a chorus of humanity. In 18 snippets he lifts the ordinary into the divine, inviting you to feel the sacred humming beneath daily moments.

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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

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O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the…

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I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only…

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“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can…

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“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your…

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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them…

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O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain…

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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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We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of…

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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times…

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Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that…

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Sure as the most certain sure … plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate,…

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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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“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,…

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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something…

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“I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall…

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

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“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…

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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…

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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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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to…

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“it makes such difference where you read”

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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