I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
WALT WHITMAN Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN The future is no more uncertain than the present.
WALT WHITMAN I exist as I am, that is enough.
WALT WHITMAN I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
WALT WHITMAN Simplicity is the glory of expression.
WALT WHITMAN Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its ...
WALT WHITMAN This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every o...
WALT WHITMAN When the full-grown poet came,
Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all WALT WHITMAN It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citiz...
WALT WHITMAN This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Agai...
WALT WHITMAN Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
WALT WHITMAN What do you think has become of the young and old men?
What do you think has become of the women ...
WALT WHITMAN Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
WALT WHITMAN To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
WALT WHITMAN The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
WALT WHITMAN Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,<...
WALT WHITMAN Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
WALT WHITMAN Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
WALT WHITMAN The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
WALT WHITMAN Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
WALT WHITMAN There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an...
WALT WHITMAN In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dr...
WALT WHITMAN Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the p...
WALT WHITMAN At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, ...
WALT WHITMAN Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sa...
WALT WHITMAN The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to ...
WALT WHITMAN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough
WALT WHITMAN WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, N...
WALT WHITMAN poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...
WALT WHITMAN Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone he...
WALT WHITMAN Do anything, but let it produce joy.
WALT WHITMAN Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
WALT WHITMAN Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
WALT WHITMAN And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
WALT WHITMAN I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its ...
WALT WHITMAN What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth --...
WALT WHITMAN This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to ever...
WALT WHITMAN What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life...
WALT WHITMAN Resist much, obey little.
WALT WHITMAN I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
WALT WHITMAN Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immens...
WALT WHITMAN Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my ...
WALT WHITMAN O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of po...
WALT WHITMAN After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found ...
WALT WHITMAN I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
WALT WHITMAN The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The pas...
WALT WHITMAN To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and signi...
WALT WHITMAN I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
WALT WHITMAN The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it,...
WALT WHITMAN They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for th...
WALT WHITMAN How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
WALT WHITMAN I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
WALT WHITMAN Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
WALT WHITMAN The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still ...
WALT WHITMAN A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
WALT WHITMAN Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and not...
WALT WHITMAN I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
WALT WHITMAN Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself ...
WALT WHITMAN This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant thre...
WALT WHITMAN All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
WALT WHITMAN Produce great men, the rest follows.
WALT WHITMAN I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
WALT WHITMAN A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMAN Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
WALT WHITMAN Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, ...
WALT WHITMAN I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with...
WALT WHITMAN The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head...
WALT WHITMAN In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe wi...
WALT WHITMAN Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night...
WALT WHITMAN O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
WALT WHITMAN ...The city fireman-the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
The arriving...
WALT WHITMAN When I heard the learn
WALT WHITMAN Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
WALT WHITMAN I accept reality and dare not question it.
WALT WHITMAN The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their ti...
WALT WHITMAN I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
WALT WHITMAN Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
WALT WHITMAN Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range ...
WALT WHITMAN The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divi...
WALT WHITMAN Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying ...
WALT WHITMAN The butcher in his killing clothes.
WALT WHITMAN On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up throu...
WALT WHITMAN To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
WALT WHITMAN The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, wh...
WALT WHITMAN The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN In the faces of men and women I see God.
WALT WHITMAN There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an...
WALT WHITMAN The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with ...
WALT WHITMAN The real war will never get in the books.
WALT WHITMAN Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.
WALT WHITMAN If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
WALT WHITMAN Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat a...
WALT WHITMAN If you done it, it ain't bragging.
WALT WHITMAN Nothing endures but personal qualities.
WALT WHITMAN And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
WALT WHITMAN Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for th...
WALT WHITMAN Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.
WALT WHITMAN Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another n...
WALT WHITMAN He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
WALT WHITMAN Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
WALT WHITMAN Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...
WALT WHITMAN The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
WALT WHITMAN Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of...
WALT WHITMAN I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
WALT WHITMAN I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
WALT WHITMAN When I give I give myself.
WALT WHITMAN Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
WALT WHITMAN Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
WALT WHITMAN We convince by our presence.
WALT WHITMAN The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
WALT WHITMAN To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
WALT WHITMAN Be curious, not judgmental.
WALT WHITMAN The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
WALT WHITMAN God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up...
WALT WHITMAN A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child...
WALT WHITMAN Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
WALT WHITMAN I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
And you must not be abas...
WALT WHITMAN The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its am...
WALT WHITMAN To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
WALT WHITMAN Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood asid...
WALT WHITMAN He is a type of our best ...
WALT WHITMAN I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
WALT WHITMAN I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems bea...
WALT WHITMAN O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless�...
WALT WHITMAN The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and fin...
WALT WHITMAN I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me un...
WALT WHITMAN The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
WALT WHITMAN Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
WALT WHITMAN Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ...
WALT WHITMAN Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat...
WALT WHITMAN There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
WALT WHITMAN O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I...
WALT WHITMAN There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose t...
WALT WHITMAN If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about G...
WALT WHITMAN Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
WALT WHITMAN And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
WALT WHITMAN After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found t...
WALT WHITMAN A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMAN There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he becam...
WALT WHITMAN Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age ma...
WALT WHITMAN Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and...
WALT WHITMAN I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triu...
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitude...
WALT WHITMAN You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and wat...
WALT WHITMAN There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
WALT WHITMAN The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
WALT WHITMAN Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots,...
WALT WHITMAN There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
WALT WHITMAN I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms
WALT WHITMAN The future is no more uncertain than the present
WALT WHITMAN He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes be...
WALT WHITMAN If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
WALT WHITMAN Oh captain my captain
WALT WHITMAN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
WALT WHITMAN I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and loo...
WALT WHITMAN We were together. I forget the rest.
WALT WHITMAN Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
WALT WHITMAN It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical ...
WALT WHITMAN When I give, I give myself
WALT WHITMAN Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
WALT WHITMAN I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful...
WALT WHITMAN Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
WALT WHITMAN If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
WALT WHITMAN Peace is always beautiful.
WALT WHITMAN I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
WALT WHITMAN I am large, I contain multitudes
WALT WHITMAN Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
WALT WHITMAN Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
WALT WHITMAN Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
WALT WHITMAN Many a good man I have seen go under.
WALT WHITMAN These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
WALT WHITMAN Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
WALT WHITMAN Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
WALT WHITMAN Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
WALT WHITMAN In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
WALT WHITMAN I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
WALT WHITMAN Simplicity is the glory of expression
WALT WHITMAN Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
WALT WHITMAN The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
WALT WHITMAN The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN