"Here the frailest leaves of me and..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems
More by Walt Whitman
“All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.”
“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”
“Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.”
More on Self
“Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.”
“Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.”
“I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.”
More on Expression
“I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.”
“A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.”
“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.”