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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Conceiv'd out of the fullest heat and pulse of European feudalism -personifying ill unparalleled ways the medieval aristocracy, its towering spirit of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“This is no book; Who touches this, touches a man; (Is it night? Are we here alone?) It is I you hold,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold! Already you see I have escaped from you. For it is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Though he would sometimes not touch a book for a week, he generally spent part of each day in reading…if he sat… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Damn all expurgated books, the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
