Time Quotes by Walt Whitman

“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life”

— Walt Whitman

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

— Walt Whitman

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;

— Walt Whitman

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

— Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

— Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

— Walt Whitman

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the…

— Walt Whitman

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

— Walt Whitman

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution,…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time,…

— Walt Whitman

“I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters…

— Walt Whitman

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the…

— Walt Whitman

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will…

— Walt Whitman

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,…

— Walt Whitman

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has…

— Walt Whitman

A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.…

— Walt Whitman

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the…

— Walt Whitman

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in…

— Walt Whitman

“Have you ever loved the body of a woman? Have you ever loved the body of a man? Do you not see…

— Walt Whitman

You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed…

— Walt Whitman

“Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you,…

— Walt Whitman

“All space, all time, The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns, Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use, Fill'd with…

— Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the…

— Walt Whitman

“It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so…

— Walt Whitman

If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his…

— Walt Whitman

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things…

— Walt Whitman

And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will…

— Walt Whitman

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present—and can be         none in the future; And I will show…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

“...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment, and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as…

— Walt Whitman

“The law of the past can't be eluded, The law of the present and future cannot be eluded, The law of the…

— Walt Whitman

All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize,…

— Walt Whitman

“Gliding o’er all, through all,Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life…

— Walt Whitman

“The past and the present wilt. I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.”

— Walt Whitman

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

— Walt Whitman

“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would…

— Walt Whitman

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute…

— Walt Whitman