Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Studying life, eh! Let him take care, studying human life is looking at the stars. If you look too close, there is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“What will be will be well, for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“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
“O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken… — 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
Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well. — 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
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life” — 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
“PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Life doesn't give You the people you want, It gives you The people you need: To love you, To hate you, To… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten… — 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
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal… — 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
