Quotes on Leaves Of Grass

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one 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.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

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 are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

All truths wait in all things.

Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.