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 saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Song of myself think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Gliding o’er all, through all,Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from… — 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
“Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the… — 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
“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author… — 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
