“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
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,… — 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 permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy — 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
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
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
“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of… — 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
“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
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour. — 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
“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
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
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 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — 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
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. — 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
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
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
“CITY OF THE WORLD (FOR ALL RACES ARE HERE, ALL THE LANDS OF THE EARTH MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS HERE), CITY OF THE SEA!… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Song of myself I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful… — 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
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All… — 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
