Walt Whitman Quotes

Walt Whitman (American - Poet)

 

May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

 

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

 

 

 

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

 

 

 

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

 

 

 

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

 

 

 

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

 

 

 

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

 

 

 

Be curious, not judgmental.

 

 

 

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

 

 

 

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

 

 

 

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.