Walt Whitman was an American poet, journalist, and essayist who is popular for poetry in American history and is known as the father of free verse.
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Walt Whitman Quotes
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
Walt Whitman
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Walt Whitman
“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.”
Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
Walt Whitman
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.”
Walt Whitman
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Walt Whitman
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Walt Whitman
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Walt Whitman
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.”
Walt Whitman
“Happiness, not in another place, but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.”
Walt Whitman
” Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
” The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Walt Whitman
” To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
Walt Whitman
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Walt Whitman
“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
Walt Whitman
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
Walt Whitman
“In the faces of men and women, I see God.”
Walt Whitman
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
Walt Whitman
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
“I inhale great draughts of space.”
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.”
Walt Whitman
“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”
Walt Whitman
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Walt Whitman
“The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.”
Walt Whitman
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Walt Whitman
“To be curious about that which is not one’s concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.”
Walt Whitman
“Peace is always beautiful.”
Walt Whitman
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Walt Whitman
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites, seeing that they are normal, and indispensable.”
Walt Whitman
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Walt Whitman
“You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness—perhaps ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things.”
Walt Whitman
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.”
Walt Whitman
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.”
Walt Whitman
“The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.”
Walt Whitman
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.”
“Resist much, obey little.”
Walt Whitman
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Walt Whitman
“To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.”
Walt Whitman
“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”
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.”
Walt Whitman
“Freedom—something is more beautiful because it is free.”
Walt Whitman
“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game—the American game.”
Walt Whitman
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
Walt Whitman
“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”
Walt Whitman
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Walt Whitman