Quotes

“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.” Walt Whitman

“I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?” Walt Whitman

“Produce great men, the rest follows.” Walt Whitman

“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.” Walt Whitman

“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.” Walt Whitman

“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.” Walt Whitman

“The real war will never get in the books.” Walt Whitman

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.” Walt Whitman

“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” Walt Whitman

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” Walt Whitman

“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.” Walt Whitman

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?” Walt Whitman

“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.” Walt Whitman

“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.” Walt Whitman

“Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.” Walt Whitman

“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.” Walt Whitman

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.” Walt Whitman

“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.” Walt Whitman

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” Alan Watts

“You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.” Alan Watts

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” Alan Watts

“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” Alan Watts

“But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” Alan Watts

“But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.” Alan Watts

“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.” Alan Watts

“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.” Alan Watts

“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” Alan Watts

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.” Alan Watts

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” Alan Watts

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” Alan Watts