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
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,… — 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
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light,… — 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
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
