Quotes from Walt Whitman

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

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

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.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

I tramp a perpetual journey.

Strong and content I travel the open road.