Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York, US. Whitman produced many works in ‘Speciman Days’ and also in prose, but his book Leaves of Grass is the most representative of his philosophy of life. It is a collection of poetry, by author Walt Whitman and was first presented in 1855 as a set of 12 poems published anonymously. This was followed by five revised and three re-issued volumes during the author’s lifetime. During his lifetime his occupations included printer, schoolteacher, reporter, and editor. Whitman’s self-published Leaves of Grass was inspired by his travels through the American frontier. Here we have handpicked only the best Walt Whitman Quotes from Leaves of Grass that you will love the most.
Walt Whitman Quotes From Leaves Of Grass
- I am large, I contain multitudes. ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Peace is always beautiful.
― WALT WHITMAN, LEAVES OF GRASS
- And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
― WALT WHITMAN, LEAVES OF GRASS
- Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless 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? ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
I am satisfied … I see, dance, laugh, sing.
― WALT WHITMAN, LEAVES OF GRASS
- Your very flesh shall be a great poem.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- “I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw,
It alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass - Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- 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.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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- Do anything, but let it produce joy.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Be curious, not judgmental.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- 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, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you. ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
