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Soul Quotes by Walt Whitman

40 Soul quotes by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman's words treat the soul as a quiet teacher. He says wisdom lives inside us, not in classrooms, and we should test what we learn against what hurts our soul. He imagines the soul standing cool before a million universes, like sunrise calm.

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I loafe and invite my soul.

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“What ever satisfies the soul is truth.”

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

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I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

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

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What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

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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…

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“The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness, I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times, Now…

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their…

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and…

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We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of…

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Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul…

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more…

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“Songs of myself Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one…

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“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and…

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this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the…

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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your…

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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me…

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Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample…

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“Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven…

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

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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All…

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“Song of myself A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the…

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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense……

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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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“We descend upon you and all things—we arrest you all; We realize the soul only by you, you faithful solids and fluids;…

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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,…

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is…

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

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The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its…

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Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are…

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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage…

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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.

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…