“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night, I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. — 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
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the… — 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
“Each of us inevitable, Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allow'd… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth… — 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
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
“Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“When the full-grown poet came, Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Your true soul and body appear before me. Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense…… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Song of myself Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset--earth of the mountains… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth. — 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
“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
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,… — 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
![“And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass, It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's…” quote by Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/67f/walt-whitman-265_goodness_and-now-it-grass-seems-to-me-the-beautif_664009.jpg)
![“A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense… [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top…” quote by Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/350/walt-whitman-265_bark_a-murmuring-fateful-giant-voice-out-of-t_1094512.jpg)
