Quotes by Walt Whitman
5 quotes by Walt Whitman (died 1892), taken from Leaves of Grass. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Leaves of Grass
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“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.”
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“How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, / In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, / Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
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“The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? / Answer. / That you are here—that life exists and identity, / That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
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“Why, who makes much of a miracle? / As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, / Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, / Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky.”
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“I loafe and invite my soul, / I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”