Quotes By Walt Whitman

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.