I have just this moment heard from the front - there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting something to happen.
- Walt Whitman
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
- Walt Whitman
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.
- Walt Whitman
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
- Walt Whitman
Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
- Walt Whitman
Many a good man I have seen go under.
- Walt Whitman
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
- Walt Whitman
Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.
- Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball, 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 those losses and be a blessing to us.
- Walt Whitman
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be.
- Walt Whitman
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Walt Whitman
The butcher in his killing clothes.
- Walt Whitman
In the faces of men and womenI see God.
- Walt Whitman
Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.
- Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
- Walt Whitman
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
- Walt Whitman
I accept reality and dare not question it.
- Walt Whitman
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
- Walt Whitman
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- 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.
- Walt Whitman
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
- 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
The real war will never get in the books.
- Walt Whitman
