“Come lovely and soothing death, undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving.”
Walt Whitman Quotes · Page 2
1819 – 1892
American poet and essayist who revised 'Leaves of Grass' across nearly four decades, celebrating democracy, the body and the self.
40 quotesAbout Walt Whitman on Wikipedia
“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”
“All, all for immortality, love like the light silently wrapping all.”
“The paths to the house I seek to make, but leave to those to come the house itself.”
“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.”
“And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.”
“He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.”
“Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters.”
“We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them.”
“We are all too prone to wander from ourselves, to affect Europe, and watch her frowns and smiles.”
“Are we indignant? Alarmed? Do we feel jeopardized? No; helped, braced, concentrated, rather.”
