Quotes from Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come O you whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you, As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass."

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

What ever satisfies the soul is truth.