Walt Whitman Waiting Quotations

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

All truths wait in all things.

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch)...

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.