Poetry Quote by Walt Whitman — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,”

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

“I have said that the soul is not more than the body,”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“Song of myself”

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”

“If you come as softly”

“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”

“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.”

“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”

“I was not sorrowful, but only tired”

“If I had a soul I sold it”