Quotes By Walt Whitman

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?

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

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

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

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?

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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

I accept reality and dare not question it.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

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

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

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

I exist as I am, that is enough.

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.