A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
- Walt Whitman Quote

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
- Walt Whitman Quote

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
- Walt Whitman Quote

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman Quote

I exist as I am, that is enough.
- Walt Whitman Quote

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
- Walt Whitman Quote

If you done it, it ain't bragging.
- Walt Whitman Quote

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Nothing endures but personal qualities.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

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

Produce great men, the rest follows.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman Quote

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
- Walt Whitman Quote

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
- Walt Whitman Quote

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

The real war will never get in the books.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
- Walt Whitman Quote

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
- Walt Whitman Quote

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe.
- Walt Whitman Quote

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
- Walt Whitman Quote

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
- Walt Whitman Quote

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman Quote

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- Walt Whitman Quote

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
- Walt Whitman Quote

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 Quote

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
- Walt Whitman Quote

When I give, I give myself.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
- Walt Whitman Quote

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
- Walt Whitman Quote