“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present—and can be none in the future; And I will show… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for, But you,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“(I know, it's a poem but oh well). Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing… — 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
