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

““WE two boys together clinging,”

“I act as the tongue of you,”

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

“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.”

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

“For we cannot tarry here,”

“Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.”

“We thought everything would be”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“Suddenly it's December and you're not 17 anymore. And you haven't been 17 for a very long time, but sometimes you need to remind yourself.”

“What's a rainy day”