I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near, I know very well I could not.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I announce adhesiveness-I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd; I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Shocked? I consider Bob one of the constellations of our time — of our country — America — a bright, magnificent constellation.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“ Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“HOW solemn, as one by one, As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty—as the men file by where I stand; As… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — 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
