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Walt Whitman Quotes about Soul

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

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

Encouragement, Get Well, Soul

Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Spiritual, Truth, Soul

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.748, NYU Press

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.

Wisdom, School, Soul

Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Soul, Insult, Your Soul

Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.39

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

Men, Soul, Infinite

Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

Soul, Wonder, Mask

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.554, NYU Press

Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

Deep Water, Soul, Risk

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

Soul, Body, Ifs

Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.118, SkyLight Paths Publishing

I loafe and invite my soul.

Soul, Invites, My Soul

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

Soul, Should, Knows

Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

Sweet, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

Soul

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.435, NYU Press

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

Horse, Freedom, Soul

Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.186

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Night, Soul, Logic

Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.21, Wildside Press LLC

I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Army, Soul, Body

Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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.

Self, Soul, Body

'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 48

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

Soul, Sun, Calm

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.

Sweet, Horse, Soul

Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, III”

The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

Beautiful, Garden, Soul

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.118, NYU Press

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