Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. Walt Whitman More Quotes by Walt Whitman More Quotes From Walt Whitman Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman positivehappinessinspirational Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. Walt Whitman carpe-diemnaturehappiness This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman crazyhatestupid The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. Walt Whitman songmotivationalinspirational We were together. I forget the rest. Walt Whitman loveromanticfunny Either define the moment or the moment will define you. Walt Whitman define-youmoments Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman hoursmiracleperfect The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. Walt Whitman simpletruthcomplicated As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Walt Whitman starssummerbeach When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God. Walt Whitman faceshelpingteacher Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. Walt Whitman wisdomspiritualintegrity Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. Walt Whitman self-reliancelandwater Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman judgingmeaningfullife The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. Walt Whitman rudenaturebeautiful In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. Walt Whitman confusionhappytalking The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught. Walt Whitman waitingworrywriting Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale. Walt Whitman skyanimalamerica I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grassobjects The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States. Walt Whitman mealspresidenttrying Simplicity is the glory of expression. Walt Whitman simplicitysimpleexpression
