All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
Walt WhitmanRead
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote suggests that true connection can transcend physical absence; the essence of a person can be found in memories or experiences.
Walt Whitman's quote implies a deep philosophical stance on existence and connection. It conveys that if someone wishes to find or reconnect with him, they should search within themselves, in the experiences they shared or the impact he made on their lives, symbolized by 'boot soles.' It emphasizes the idea that a person's influence or spirit continues to live on in the lives of others, regardless of physical separation.
Themes
ConnectionMemoryExistenceInfluenceSpirit
In practice
Example use cases
During a memorial service, one might use this quote to highlight how a person's memory lives on.
More from Walt Whitman
All quotes βDid you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.
Walt WhitmanRead
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt WhitmanRead
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt WhitmanRead
Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,_x000D_ _x000D_ We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss._x000D_ _x000D_ Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;_x000D_ _x000D_ So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
Walt WhitmanRead
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt WhitmanRead
Similar quotes
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.
C. S. LewisRead
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
Miguel De UnamunoRead
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
Victor HugoRead
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyRead
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. ThompsonRead