Quote

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law Will you give me yourself?

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
Money
Hands
Give
Giving
Love
Preaching
Precious
Hand
Law

More quotes by 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
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman
Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Walt Whitman
Image
Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
Image
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
Walt Whitman
Image
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
Image
Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
Walt Whitman
Image
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
Image
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman
Image
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
Walt Whitman
Image
To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.
Walt Whitman
Image
All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it
Walt Whitman
Image
Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
Walt Whitman
Image
Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.
Walt Whitman
Image
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt Whitman
Image
But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
Walt Whitman
Image
The art of art... is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Image
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Walt Whitman
Image
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.
Walt Whitman
Image
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
Walt Whitman