Quote

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Writer
West Hills
New York
Walter Whitman
Henceforth
Karma
Fortune
Attitude
Asks
Good

More quotes by Walt Whitman

Image
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus it is nearer and farther than they.
Walt Whitman
Image
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Image
A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.
Walt Whitman
Image
Camerado! This is no book who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman
Image
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
Walt Whitman
Image
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Walt Whitman
Image
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Walt Whitman
Image
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
Walt Whitman
Image
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
Walt Whitman
Image
O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish what good amid these, O me, O life?
Walt Whitman
Image
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
Walt Whitman
Image
All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).
Walt Whitman
Image
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.
Walt Whitman
Image
Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
Walt Whitman
Image
I know I am deathlessÂ…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
Walt Whitman
Image
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
Image
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.
Walt Whitman
Image
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
Walt Whitman
Image
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
Walt Whitman
Image
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Walt Whitman