O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — 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
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. — 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
Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be. — 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
“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 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
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