“One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol, still it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A fitly born and bred race, growing up in right conditions of outdoor as much as indoor harmony, activity and development, would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me… — 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
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each… — 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
