Walt Whitman quotes

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

“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

“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

— Walt Whitman

“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”

— Walt Whitman

“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

“If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.”

— Walt Whitman

“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

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

“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

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

— Walt Whitman

“We convince by our presence.”

— Walt Whitman

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

— Walt Whitman

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

— Walt Whitman

“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

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

— Walt Whitman

“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

— Walt Whitman

“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— 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 the same spirit in which they are won.”

— 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, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

— Walt Whitman

“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”

— Walt Whitman

“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

“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”

— Walt Whitman

“The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.”

— Walt Whitman

“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”

— Walt Whitman