Quotes By Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

We convince by our presence.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

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.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

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.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

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

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.