Quotes from Walt Whitman
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
- Walt Whitman
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
- Walt Whitman
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
- Walt Whitman
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
- Walt Whitman
Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
- Walt Whitman
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
- Walt Whitman
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
- Walt Whitman
All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
- Walt Whitman
Those who love each other shall become invincible.
- Walt Whitman
Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.
- Walt Whitman
The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
- Walt Whitman
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.
- Walt Whitman