2. I love Walt Whitman. His words make my
toes curl with happiness.
My daughter is reading English literature
at University. Not in my wildest dreams
could I have asked for such blessings in
my life.
3. My son is now taller than me. A few years
ago I would steal his trainers if I had to
nip outide for a few moments, now his
feet are twice the size of mine.
He eats non stop. My children are such a
source of incredible happiness. Gratitude
is the foundation store upon which we
build our temples.
4. A great city is that which has the greatest
men and women.
Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies
me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
5. After you have exhausted what there is in
business, politics, conviviality, and so on –
have found that none of these finally
satisfy, or permanently wear – what
remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
All faults may be forgiven of him who has
perfect candor.
Walt Whitman
6. And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
Behold I do not give lectures or a little
charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his
beams full-dazzling.
Walt Whitman
7. Have you heard that it was good to gain
the day? I also say it is good to
fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in
which they are won.
Walt Whitman
8. Have you learned the lessons only of
those who admired you, and were tender
with you, and stood aside for you? Have
you not learned great lessons from those
who braced themselves against you, and
disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I
myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
9. I am as bad as the worst, but, thank
God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like
is enough.
Walt Whitman
10. I say to mankind, Be not curious about
God. For I, who am curious about
each, am not curious about God – I hear
and behold God in every object, yet
understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman
11. If any thing is sacred the human body is
sacred.
Walt Whitman
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a
class, but we have it in the bulk of our
people.
Walt Whitman
12. The art of art, the glory of expression and
the sunshine of the light of letters, is
simplicity.
Walt Whitman
You must not know too much or be too
precise or scientific about birds and trees
and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-
margin, and even vagueness –
ignorance, credulity – helps your
enjoyment of these things.
Walt Whitman
13. Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
Now I see the secret of the making of the
best persons. It is to grow in the open air
and to eat and sleep with the earth
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
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