Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty. — 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
“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
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
Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. — 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
“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
“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
“Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900. To You WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I… — 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 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
“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
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are,… — 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
“Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals... — 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
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
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
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain… — 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
“Have you ever loved the body of a woman? Have you ever loved the body of a man? Do you not see… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love If you want me again look for me under… — 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
