Walt Whitman Quotes

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

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.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don`t believe I deserved my friends.

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.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

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.

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

If you done it, it ain`t bragging.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

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

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

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.

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

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass`d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

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

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

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 no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Capital Punishment is a silly excuse for fear. The police fear the guy so they say `Off with his head!` Not only is it morally wrong, but it`s medieval!

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

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

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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