Ur Eyes Quotes by Walt Whitman

12 Ur Eyes quotes by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s twelve verses on “Ur Eyes” distill his expansive, democratic spirit into concise snapshots, celebrating the ordinary act of seeing as a shared human experience.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle…

Walt Whitman

Image

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my…

Walt Whitman

Image

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my…

Walt Whitman

Image

“Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes? It…

Walt Whitman

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

Image

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

Walt Whitman

Image

“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle…

Walt Whitman

Image

“PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I…

Walt Whitman

Image

“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it…

Walt Whitman

Image

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that…

Walt Whitman

Image

“What shall I give? and which are my miracles? 2. Realism is mine--my miracles--Take freely, Take without end--I offer them to you…

Walt Whitman

Image

“I tramp the perpetual journey My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend…

Walt Whitman

Image

Other authors on Ur Eyes

More by Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

Image

“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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

“it makes such difference where you read”

Walt Whitman

Image

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

Image

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

Walt Whitman

Image

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

Walt Whitman

Image

“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

Image

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

Image

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

Walt Whitman

Image

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

Image

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

Walt Whitman

Image

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

Image