We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life. Walt Whitman More Quotes by Walt Whitman More Quotes From Walt Whitman Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. Walt Whitman missing waiting grieving All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman faults perfect may I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name. Walt Whitman faith god names I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. Walt Whitman dead-poets-society teens healing Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete. Walt Whitman effort average people Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Walt Whitman strong criticism travel I sing the body electric. Walt Whitman soma medicine philosophy Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. Walt Whitman hiking freedom journey I loafe and invite my soul. Walt Whitman invites my-soul soul Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as Walt Whitman powerful eye sight People who serve you without love get even behind your back. Walt Whitman behind-your-back best-love people I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers. Walt Whitman dance men believe Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough. Walt Whitman coffins contentment dark Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems Walt Whitman my-thoughts lasting shade O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God! Walt Whitman gun struggle death Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass miracle feelings I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em! Walt Whitman saws ems war I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years. Walt Whitman leadership men years Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself. Walt Whitman eye night book Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems Walt Whitman spectre through-my-eyes night
