A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of…

Walt Whitman
350 citations
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ✨ Walt Whitman Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor), Powell Publications, LLC
Philosophy Reading
29

More Author Quotes

My words itch at your ears till you understand them ✨ Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition, p.191, Psychology Press
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me ✨ Walt Whitman (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated), p.228, Delphi Classics
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. ✨ 1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem. ✨ Specimen Days & Collect.
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. ✨ Walt Whitman (2012). Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition, p.12, Courier Corporati … ▶

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ✨ Walt Whitman Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor), Powell Publications, LLC

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes