Quotes from Walt Whitman

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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

Your very flesh shall be a great poem...

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

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

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.