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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I know I am deathless We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers and dreams and gaping,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won — 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
