The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. Walt Whitman More Quotes by Walt Whitman More Quotes From Walt Whitman You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here Walt Whitman unseen believe looks Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together. Walt Whitman voice running song Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass beautiful war That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. Walt Whitman night death hands For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! Walt Whitman pioneers race bears Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well. Walt Whitman memories life death Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself. Walt Whitman passion song sex Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is also not consistent with the reality of the soul to admit that there is anything in the known universe more divine than men and women. The master knows that he is unspeakably great and that all are unspeakably great. There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place.A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man,and every man shall be his own priest. Walt Whitman book reality school What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words. Walt Whitman curious sound beauty An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. Walt Whitman superb individual quality 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 light age book From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master. Walt Whitman hours my-own masters A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future. Walt Whitman sky past years This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me Walt Whitman interest citizens cities I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! Walt Whitman swear faith What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Walt Whitman men death children I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent Walt Whitman weed doubt world Agonies are one of my changes of garments. Walt Whitman garments agony Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow. Walt Whitman speech voice speak A man can be a hero in any profession Walt Whitman profession hero men
