The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O something unprov’d! something in a trance! O madness amorous! O trembling! O to escape utterly from others’ anchors and holds! To… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior? — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. — 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
