This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God. - Walt Whitman
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
- Walt Whitman
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there ar… - Walt Whitman
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there ar…
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. - Walt Whitman
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
We were together. I forget the rest. - Walt Whitman
We were together. I forget the rest.
Dismiss whatever insults your soul. - Walt Whitman
Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. - Walt Whitman
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, … - Walt Whitman
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, …
Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle. - Walt Whitman
Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Do anything, but let it produce joy. - Walt Whitman
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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