TOP 25 QUOTES BY WALT WHITMAN (of 494) | A-Z Quotes
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TOP 25 QUOTES BY WALT WHITMAN (of 494) | A-Z Quotes
And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.” —RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Jeff Goins • You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, “It matters not where or how far you travel—the farther commonly the worse—but how much alive you are.
Pico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons—the sun by day and the st
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