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  • All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Singing Quotes
  • I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Night Quotes , Space Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Years Quotes , Waiting Quotes
  • O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Love Quotes , Dream Quotes
  • Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Stars Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • 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?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Lessons Quotes
  • Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Fall Quotes