Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — Walt Whitman
1819–1892 United States
35 quotes
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is.
I say the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
In the faces of men and women I see God.
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul except to walk free and own no superior?
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.
Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
The paths to the house I seek to make,
But leave to those to come the house itself.
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
Attribution
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