What doesn’t kill you leaves scars, ruins your lungs…

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

— Walt Whitman

“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd the eternal…

— Walt Whitman

Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I…

— 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…

— 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…

— Walt Whitman

“it makes such difference where you read”

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the…

— 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.

— Walt Whitman

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

— Walt Whitman

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up…

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din…

— Walt Whitman