Walt Whitman quotes

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. (Walt Whitman)
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. View quote
Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. View quote
Walt Whitman
Be curious, not judgmental. View quote
Walt Whitman
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. View quote
Walt Whitman
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. View quote
Walt Whitman
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. View quote
Walt Whitman
The real war will never get in the books. View quote
Walt Whitman
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. View quote
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. View quote
Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. (Walt Whitman)
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. View quote
Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. View quote
Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. View quote
Walt Whitman
We were together. I forget the rest. View quote
Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. View quote
Walt Whitman
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling. View quote
Walt Whitman
The future is no more uncertain than the present. View quote
Walt Whitman
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? View quote
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. View quote
Walt Whitman
Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. (Walt Whitman)
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. View quote
Walt Whitman
Your very flesh shall be a great poem... View quote
Walt Whitman
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. View quote
Walt Whitman
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. View quote
Walt Whitman