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

“Resist much, obey little.”

“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.”

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”

“TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,”

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

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;”

“I am not a slow learner”

“I hid my love when young till I”

“And if the world has ceased to hear you,”

“Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.”

“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.”

“The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain”