I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse unreturn’d love,/ But now I think there is no unreturn’d love, the pay is certain one way or another Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.ĭazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sunrise out of me. Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.

I am larger, better than I thought I did not know I held so much goodness. In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, and the good or bad I say of myself I say of them. Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,/ The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young. I am satisfied… I see, dance, laugh, sing.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Īnd as to me, I know nothing else but miracles. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.īut poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. Here Are 78 Inspirational Walt Whitman Quotes (Author of Leaves of Grass) about Nature & Life Walt Whitman quotes from Leaves of Grass

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