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Walt Whitman
American
Poet
About the author
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Miracles
#Feeling
#Hearing
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Simplicity
#Expression
#Glory
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Style
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Stars
#Journey
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Dance
#Men
#Midnight
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#God
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Question
#Reality
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,
American
Poet
#God
#Mankind
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Time
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?
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Time
#Nothing
#First
#Sleep
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Freedom
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Flowers
#Garden
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Day
#Spirit
#Gain
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Fortune
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,
American
Poet
#Vision
#Speech
#Measure
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Now
#Earth
#Open
#Sleep
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Will
#Nothing
#Death
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Present
#Future
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Independence
#Actions
#Beauty
#Departure
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Hair
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#World
#Man
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,
American
Poet
#Desire
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Country
#Proof
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Soul
#Insults
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Men
#Rest
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#People
#Class
#Vitality
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,
American
Poet
#Life
#Will
#Nothing
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Friends
#Enemies
#Doubt
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Art
#Light
#Simplicity
#Expression
#Letters
#Glory
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Truth
#Soul
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Power
#Genius
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Poets
#Audiences
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Day
#Night
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Humanity
#Artist
#Manners
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
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,
American
Poet
#People
#states
#United
#Genius
#Newspapers
#Churches
We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Nothing
When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Universe
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Words
#Nothing
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Universe
#Theory
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#states
#United
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Liberty
#Law
#Man
#Laws
The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Will
#War
#Books
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,
American
Poet
#Time
#Growth
#English
#Language
#Race
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Baseball
#American
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Love
#Public
#Road
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Light
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Bragging
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Men
#Women
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Books
#Metaphysics
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,
American
Poet
#Nature
#Business
#Politics
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Charity
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Body
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#People
#Day
#May
#Country
#Spirit
#Tyranny
#Defiance
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Art
#Past
#Democracy
#Poems
#Schools
#Theology
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#God
#May
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Years
#Universe
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#May
#Faults
#Candor
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Sympathy
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#May
#Man
#Trade
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Trees
#Thoughts
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Death
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Soul
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.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Old
#Fools
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Will
#Shadows
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#Word
#Confusion
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman,
American
Poet
#World
#History
#Justice
#Jeopardy