Quote

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

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
Women
Expands
Men
Sink
People
Flat
Flats
Sunlight
Leave
Joy
Pennants
Blood
Nigh

More quotes by Walt Whitman

Image
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
Walt Whitman
Image
Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.
Walt Whitman
Image
Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
Image
Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.
Walt Whitman
Image
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.
Walt Whitman
Image
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Walt Whitman
Image
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
Walt Whitman
Image
Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
Walt Whitman
Image
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
Walt Whitman
Image
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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
O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!
Walt Whitman
Image
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
Walt Whitman
Image
Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman
Image
I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
Walt Whitman
Image
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
Image
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
Walt Whitman
Image
O amazement of things-even the least particle!
Walt Whitman
Image
What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
Walt Whitman
Image
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman