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

“Peace is always beautiful.”

“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”

“The road to wisdom is paved with excess.”

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“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.”

“Women Are Not Roses”

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow.”

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper”

“Birth, not death, is the hard loss.”

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,”

“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;”