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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable. By Walt Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest. By Walt Whitman

Blind loving wrestling touch, sheath'd hooded sharp-tooth'd touch!Did it make you ache so, leaving me? By Walt Whitman

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. By Walt Whitman

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

Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, By Walt Whitman

Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you By Walt Whitman

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them By Walt Whitman

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

The best writing has no lace on its sleeves. By Walt Whitman

The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule. By Walt Whitman

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell By Walt Whitman

Something there is more immortal even than the stars. By Walt Whitman

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. By Walt Whitman

Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars. By Walt Whitman

Studying life, eh! Let him take care, studying human life is looking at the stars. If you look too close, there is a dazzle. By Walt Whitman

the old name absorbs into me - MANNAHATTA, "the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters. By Walt Whitman

Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy air, the air of slaves,Like lightning Europe le'pt forth,Sombre, superb and terrible. By Walt Whitman

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. By 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 can express myself. By Walt Whitman

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. By Walt Whitman

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

I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me, You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you. By Walt Whitman

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. By Walt Whitman

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over ... By Walt Whitman

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy! By Walt Whitman

I will go to the bank by the wood, and become undisguised and naked; By Walt Whitman

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. By Walt Whitman

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me! By Walt Whitman

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends. By Walt Whitman

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. By Walt Whitman

Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns. By Walt Whitman

There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ... By Walt Whitman

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself! By Walt Whitman

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

I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day. By Walt Whitman

Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me. By Walt Whitman

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. By Walt Whitman

I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."-from "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life By 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. By Walt Whitman

People who serve you without love get even behind your back. By Walt Whitman

You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in. By Walt Whitman

Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams. By Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. By Walt Whitman

I know I am deathless...We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them. By Walt Whitman

My words itch at your ears till you understand them By Walt Whitman

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. By Walt Whitman

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity. By Walt Whitman

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? By Walt Whitman

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. By Walt Whitman

Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour. By Walt Whitman

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. By Walt Whitman

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has. By Walt Whitman

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

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. By Walt Whitman

From imperfection's murkiest cloud,Darts always forth one ray of perfect light,One flash of Heaven's glory."-from "Song of the Universal By Walt Whitman

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. By Walt Whitman

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,Else it were time lost listening to me. By Walt Whitman

I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place. By Walt Whitman

Do anything, but let it produce joy. By Walt Whitman

I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you."-from "To You By Walt Whitman

Remember my words, I may again return,I love you, I depart from materials,I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead. By Walt Whitman

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race. By Walt Whitman

When I give, I give myself By Walt Whitman

I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals. By Walt Whitman

Be not dishearten'd Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;Those who love each other shall become invincible. By Walt Whitman

I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice, By Walt Whitman

I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest. By Walt Whitman

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another. By Walt Whitman

Of all the earth her heart most full of sorrow because most full of love. By Walt Whitman

For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy? By Walt Whitman

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? By Walt Whitman

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you ... By Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. By Walt Whitman

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them. By Walt Whitman

I love doctors and hate their medicine. By Walt Whitman

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior? By Walt Whitman

Copulation is no more foul to me than death is. By 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? By Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities. By Walt Whitman

Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,Be not afraid of my body. By Walt Whitman

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

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time. By Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. By Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. By Walt Whitman

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed. By Walt Whitman

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle. By Walt Whitman

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green. By Walt Whitman

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation. By Walt Whitman

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time By Walt Whitman

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. By Walt Whitman

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! By Walt Whitman

Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you. By Walt Whitman

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

O I see life is not short but immeasurably long"-from "Myself and Mine By Walt Whitman

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. By Walt Whitman

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. By Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough. By Walt Whitman

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

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you. By Walt Whitman

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am an encloser of things to be. By Walt Whitman

Great is Youthequally great is Old Agegreat are Day and Night.Great is Wealthgreat is Povertygreat is Expression-great is Silence. By Walt Whitman

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. By Walt Whitman

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! By Walt Whitman

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness. By Walt Whitman

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well. By Walt Whitman

And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality ... it is idle to try to alarm me By Walt Whitman

I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots, By Walt Whitman

Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together. By Walt Whitman

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. By Walt Whitman

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. By Walt Whitman

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death. By Walt Whitman

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

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms! By Walt Whitman

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.[Give me the splendid silent sun] By Walt Whitman

But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead. By Walt Whitman

Urge and urge and urge,Always the procreant urge of the world. By Walt Whitman

WOMEN sit, or move to and fro - some old, some young; The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young. By Walt Whitman

I lean and loaf at my ease ... observing a spear of summer grass. By Walt Whitman

The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain, By Walt Whitman

All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul. By Walt Whitman

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

Many a good man I have seen go under. By Walt Whitman

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred. By Walt Whitman

Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,I tread day and night such roads. By Walt Whitman

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. By Walt Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."-from "Song of Myself By Walt Whitman

To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do."Me imperturbe By Walt Whitman

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. By Walt Whitman

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me. By Walt Whitman

Give me such showsgive me the streets of Manhattan! By Walt Whitman

Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, By Walt Whitman

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. By Walt Whitman

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name ... By Walt Whitman

Be curious not judgemental. By Walt Whitman

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. By Walt Whitman

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul ... By Walt Whitman

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

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots. By Walt Whitman

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; By Walt Whitman

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle. By Walt Whitman

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. By Walt Whitman

All truths wait in all things, By Walt Whitman

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. By Walt Whitman

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing. By Walt Whitman

I tramp a perpetual journey. By Walt Whitman

Stout as a horse By Walt Whitman

We convince by our presence. By Walt Whitman

All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it By Walt Whitman

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. By Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. By Walt Whitman

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them. By Walt Whitman

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. By Walt Whitman

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior By Walt Whitman

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

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

Most works are most beautiful without ornament. By Walt Whitman

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. By Walt Whitman

Caution seldom goes far enough. By Walt Whitman

Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round. By Walt Whitman

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; By Walt Whitman

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection. By Walt Whitman

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

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico ... to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race? By Walt Whitman

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth ... in mine it begins to be loosened. By Walt Whitman

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. By Walt Whitman

is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, By Walt Whitman

Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, By Walt Whitman

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. By Walt Whitman

O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you. By Walt Whitman

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them. By Walt Whitman

Solitary the thrush,The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding thesettlements,Sings by himself a song.Song of the bleeding throat! By Walt Whitman

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

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! By Walt Whitman

The poet is individual - he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not. By Walt Whitman

See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that,Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that."-from "Song of Myself By Walt Whitman

I announce adhesiveness-I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd;I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for. By Walt Whitman

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself. By Walt Whitman

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries. By Walt Whitman

Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. By Walt Whitman

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow. By Walt Whitman

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. By Walt Whitman

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. By Walt Whitman

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. By Walt Whitman

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. By Walt Whitman

Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration! By Walt Whitman

There is no God any more divine than Yourself. By Walt Whitman

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. By Walt Whitman

I am large, I contain multitudes By Walt Whitman

My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach, with the twirl of my tongue I encompass words and volumes of words By Walt Whitman

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy By Walt Whitman

I am not contain'd between my hat and boots. By Walt Whitman

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. By Walt Whitman

Sun so generous it shall be you- Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman

Either define the moment or the moment will define you. By Walt Whitman

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be. By Walt Whitman

Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo. By Walt Whitman

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

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

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking. By Walt Whitman

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long. By Walt Whitman

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

Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. By Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are. By Walt Whitman

Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on. By Walt Whitman

The past and the present wilt. I have fill'd them, emptied them,And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. By Walt Whitman

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. By Walt Whitman

I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out. By Walt Whitman

Oh captain my captain By Walt Whitman

I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy. By Walt Whitman

I speak the password primeval. By Walt Whitman

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold. By Walt Whitman

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

I refuse putting from me the best that I am. By Walt Whitman

What is a man anyhow? what am I? what are you? By Walt Whitman

I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther. By Walt Whitman

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. By Walt Whitman

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. By Walt Whitman

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript. By Walt Whitman

I sing the body electric. By Walt Whitman

All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion. By Walt Whitman

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me By Walt Whitman

I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. By Walt Whitman

I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat; By Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you? By Walt Whitman

Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists. By Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. By Walt Whitman

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. By Walt Whitman

To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate. By Walt Whitman

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean By Walt Whitman

I am enamour'd of growing out-doors, Of men that live among cattle or taste of the ocean or woods, By Walt Whitman

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature. By Walt Whitman

Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. By Walt Whitman

I am the man, I suffered, I was there. By Walt Whitman

The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything. By Walt Whitman

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

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. By Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women, I see God. By Walt Whitman

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. By Walt Whitman

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? By Walt Whitman

I believe that much unseen is also here. By Walt Whitman

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? By Walt Whitman

Clear and sweet is my soul ... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack By Walt Whitman

The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer ... By Walt Whitman

It makes such difference where you read By Walt Whitman

Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall. By Walt Whitman

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. By Walt Whitman

In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind. By Walt Whitman

I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled! By Walt Whitman

The earth recedes from me into the night, I saw that it was beautiful . . . . and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful. By Walt Whitman

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

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you. By Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills ... By Walt Whitman

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name. By Walt Whitman

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences. By Walt Whitman

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak. By Walt Whitman

I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder. By Walt Whitman

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

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss ... it is inevitable as life. By Walt Whitman

The work for giants ... to serve well the guns! By Walt Whitman

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. By Walt Whitman

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. By Walt Whitman

The souls moving along ... are they invisible while the least atom of the stones is visible? By Walt Whitman

A man can be a hero in any profession By 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. By Walt Whitman

I loafe and invite my soul. By Walt Whitman

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are. By Walt Whitman

O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last! By Walt Whitman

The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken. By Walt Whitman

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

A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning. By Walt Whitman

Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,I know very well I could not. By Walt Whitman

The strongest and sweetest song remains to be sung By Walt Whitman

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. By Walt Whitman

The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me By Walt Whitman

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office. By Walt Whitman

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

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. By Walt Whitman

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side ... The Bending forward and backward of the rowers ... By Walt Whitman

he can make every word he speaks draw blood, By Walt Whitman

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here By Walt Whitman

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough By Walt Whitman

He cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one By Walt Whitman

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. By Walt Whitman

Give me solitude - give me Nature - give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities! By Walt Whitman

I accept Reality and dare not question it, Materialism first and last imbuing. By Walt Whitman

What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words. By Walt Whitman

But where is what I started for so long ago?And why is it yet unfound? By Walt Whitman

There will never be any more perfection than there is now. By Walt Whitman

I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great ... By Walt Whitman

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs. By Walt Whitman

I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,It is always to leave the best untold."-from "A Song of the Rolling Earth By Walt Whitman

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. By Walt Whitman

O amazement of things-even the least particle! By Walt Whitman

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. By Walt Whitman

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary. By Walt Whitman

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. By Walt Whitman

I dance with the dancers. By Walt Whitman

The art of art ... is simplicity. By Walt Whitman

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world. By Walt Whitman

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious. By Walt Whitman

Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay; By Walt Whitman

I am not contain'd between my hat and my boots. By Walt Whitman

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. By Walt Whitman

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll. By Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental. By Walt Whitman

I will not descend among professors and capitalists. By Walt Whitman

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. By Walt Whitman

I do not call one greater and one smaller, that which fills it period and place is equal to any. By Walt Whitman

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 By Walt Whitman

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. By Walt Whitman

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality! By Walt Whitman

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. By Walt Whitman

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail By Walt Whitman

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. By Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows. By Walt Whitman

Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid By Walt Whitman

A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not. By Walt Whitman

A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars By Walt Whitman

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls. By Walt Whitman

Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me. By Walt Whitman

Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious? By Walt Whitman

From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master ... By Walt Whitman

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

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you. By Walt Whitman

Resist much, obey little. By Walt Whitman

Peace is always beautiful. By Walt Whitman

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. By Walt Whitman

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung. By Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other. By Walt Whitman

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. By Walt Whitman

These are the days that must happen to you. By Walt Whitman

I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,And I become the other dreamers. By Walt Whitman

As to me,I know of nothing but miracles. By Walt Whitman

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God. By Walt Whitman

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. By Walt Whitman

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman. By Walt Whitman

The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States. By Walt Whitman

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? By Walt Whitman

What will be will be well - for what is is well,To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well. By Walt Whitman

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles By 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 with the earth. By Walt Whitman

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear. By Walt Whitman

To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow, By Walt Whitman

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune! By Walt Whitman

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. By Walt Whitman

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

O the blest eyes, the happy hearts,That see, that know the guiding thread so fine,Along the mighty labyrinth."-from "Song of the Universal By Walt Whitman

However convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain here. By Walt Whitman

Not one is dissatisfied ... not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not By Walt Whitman

I hate commas in the wrong places. By Walt Whitman

The beautiful uncut hair of graves. By Walt Whitman

Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself. By Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression. By Walt Whitman