Quotes By Walt Whitman

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.

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?

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

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

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

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.

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.

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

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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