Walt Whitman Quotes

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
American Poet
Born: May 31, 1819
Died: Mar 26, 1892
Am Great Me Myself Nothing You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot E. E. Cummings
I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman
Reality Dare Accept Question
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
Wise Man Wise Man Liberty Law Every Consider On The Contrary Release Constraint Laws Sees Potent Shallow Contrary
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Walt Whitman
Me Miracles Feeling Seeing Miracle Tag Part Hearing Each
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. Walt Whitman
Myself Charity Give Lectures Behold Little
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman
Genius Power Indescribable About Noblest Freshness Person Illiterate Expressive
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman
Great Poem Shall Very Flesh Your
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
Time Language Free Every Range Composition Both Freely Dialect Accretion Race Viewed English English Language Growth
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. Walt Whitman
Freedom Walk Free Superior Own
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
God Every Say Object About Understand Am Least Hear Curious Behold Mankind Who Each
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman
Class People Few Other Our Our People Vitality Bulk Lands
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman
Faults Perfect Him Forgiven May Candor Who
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. Walt Whitman
Single Universe Directed Individual Single Individual Theory Whole
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman
States Poem Greatest Essentially Themselves United United States
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. Walt Whitman
Book Words Nothing Everything Drift
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman
Humanity Manners Significant Bad Bad Manners Picturesque Most Real Real Artist Artist Often
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. Walt Whitman
Man Hero Become Young Following Employment Trade May Young Man
The real war will never get in the books. Walt Whitman
War Will Books Never Real Get Real War
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. Walt Whitman
Universe Object Makes Hub Soft
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman
Walks Own Sympathy Without His Whoever Shroud Funeral
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Walt Whitman
Poet Country Proof He Absorb Him His
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Walt Whitman
Beautiful Death Nothing More Than Happen
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. Walt Whitman
Own Find My Own Sticks Than Sweeter Fat Bones
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
Me You Vision Enough Says Out Contain Itself Forever Unequal Walt Then Measure Why Twin Speech
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
Old Fools Postponed Advance New Go Offer Front Stood Behind Which Bigots Persons
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