Poet Quotes by Walt Whitman

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric…

— Walt Whitman

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

— Walt Whitman

“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”

— Walt Whitman

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

— Walt Whitman

“The poet is individual—he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do…

— Walt Whitman

“[The poet] is no arguer . . . he is judgment. He judges not as the judge judges but as the sun…

— Walt Whitman

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a…

— Walt Whitman

“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which…

— Walt Whitman

“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

“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates 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

“Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven…

— Walt Whitman

Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor…

— Walt Whitman

“The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be…

— 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