“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Walt Whitman
“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. Walt Whitman
“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
Walt Whitman
“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”
Walt Whitman
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Walt Whitman
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
Walt Whitman
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
“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.”
Walt Whitman
“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.”
Walt Whitman
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Walt Whitman
“In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.”
Walt Whitman
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Walt Whitman
“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.”
Walt Whitman
“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?”
Walt Whitman
“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?”
Walt Whitman
“To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.”
Walt Whitman
“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.”
Walt Whitman
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”
Walt Whitman
