A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. — 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
In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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 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
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
