Quotes By Walt Whitman

When I give, I give myself.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

We convince by our presence.

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

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.

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.