Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. — Walt Whitman
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
From Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself”
More from Walt Whitman
— Walt WhitmanHappiness, not in another place but this place; not for another hour, but this hour.
— Walt WhitmanDo I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
— Walt WhitmanThanks in old age — thanks ere I go, for health, the midday sun, the impalpable air.
— Walt WhitmanI am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
Related words
— Henry David ThoreauHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
— Benjamin FranklinTranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
— Rabindranath TagoreThe world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.