Walt Whitman quotes

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

We convince by our presence.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

The real war will never get in the books.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

The real war will never get in the books.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.