People Quotes by Walt Whitman

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

— Walt Whitman

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

— Walt Whitman

I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.

— Walt Whitman

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

— Walt Whitman

People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

— Walt Whitman

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

— Walt Whitman

In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say…

— Walt Whitman

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness…

— Walt Whitman

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long…

— Walt Whitman

Life doesn't give You the people you want, It gives you The people you need: To love you, To hate you, To…

— Walt Whitman

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me…

— Walt Whitman

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is…

— Walt Whitman

O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The…

— Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with…

— Walt Whitman

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more…

— Walt Whitman

I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I…

— Walt Whitman

Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times…

— Walt Whitman

Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all…

— Walt Whitman

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors…

— Walt Whitman

This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,…

— Walt Whitman