Walt Whitman Quotes

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

You are a piece of creation. If you go against any other piece of creation, you are unknowingly going against yourself.

One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.

I am two with nature.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the north. What happens in the east has effects in the north, as the west has in the south. And do not focus on one species and ignore the other. Or love your father but ignore your mother, or love your sister but ignore your brother. Do not forget each other. We are all part of each other. We are all ONE.

Love is to be two and at the same time one.

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.