Quotes about Connection
In all people I see myself, none more and not one barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
— Walt Whitman
To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand
— Walt Whitman
Love, that is day and night — love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
— Walt Whitman
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.
— Walt Whitman
The weakest and shallowest is deathless with me, What I do and say the same waits for them, Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
— Walt Whitman
Enough - the Centenarian's story ends; The two, past and present, have interchanged; I myself, as connector, as chansonnier of a great future, am now speaking.
— Walt Whitman
And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul, Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
— Walt Whitman
In poems or in speeches I say the word or two that has got to be said, adhere to the body, step with the countless common footsteps, and remind every man and woman of something.
— Walt Whitman
Love is the cause of causes
— Walt Whitman
Amikor mellém érsz, idegen, és beszélni kÃ
— Walt Whitman
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
— Walt Whitman
Prayer is the key to each new day and the lock for every night.
— Wanda Brunstetter