Waiting Quotes by Walt Whitman

18 Waiting quotes by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman offers eighteen reflections that honor the cadence of waiting as part of life's grand chorus. His expansive, inclusive diction invites readers to feel the pulse of patience woven through everyday experience.

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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

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All truths wait in all things.

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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

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All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

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Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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“Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the…

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“Se è tardi a trovarmi, insisti, se non ci sono in un posto, cerca in un altro, perché io son fermo da…

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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps…

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,…

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait…

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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each…

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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter…

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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women…

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

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There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior…

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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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