Quotes By Walt Whitman

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.

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.

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

When I give, I give myself.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

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.

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

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.

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

Be curious, not judgmental.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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

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

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.

The real war will never get in the books.

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

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?

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

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

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