Walt Whitman Quotes

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

By Walt Whitman

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.

By 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 sleep with the earth.

By 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 sleep with the earth.

By Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

By Walt Whitman

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

By Walt Whitman

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

By Walt Whitman

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

By Walt Whitman

I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms

By Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

By Walt Whitman

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value,

By Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

By Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends

By Walt Whitman

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is.

By Walt Whitman

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

By Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

By Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

By Walt Whitman

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

By Walt Whitman

Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

By Walt Whitman

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

By Walt Whitman

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

By Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

By Walt Whitman

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

By Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself Very well then I contradict myself,

By Walt Whitman

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

By Walt Whitman

Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

By Walt Whitman

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

By Walt Whitman

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

By Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough.

By 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.

By Walt Whitman