“Be composed--be at ease with me--I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature, Not till the sun excludes you do I… — 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
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
Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! — 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
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“Ah the dead to me mar not, they fit well in Nature, They fit very well in the landscape under the trees… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“This is the female form, vapor, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,… — 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
“Gliding o’er all, through all,Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. — 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
