There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The law of the past can't be eluded, The law of the present and future cannot be eluded, The law of the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me, You can do nothing and be nothing but… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me. Whoever… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“(I know, it's a poem but oh well). Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I… — 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
