“It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state… — 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
“He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Among the men and women, the multitude, I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, Acknowledging none else—not parent,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“(I know, it's a poem but oh well). Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“What shall I give? and which are my miracles? 2. Realism is mine--my miracles--Take freely, Take without end--I offer them to you… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts… — 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
“I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more… — 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
