Quotes By Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

When I give, I give myself.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

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.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

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.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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

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

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

The real war will never get in the books.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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

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

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

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?

Simplicity is the glory of expression.