“Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — 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
The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“ He is a type of our best — our rarest. Electrical, I was going to say, beyond anyone, perhaps, ever was:… — 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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Songs of myself I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I… — 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
“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.” — 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
“Beautiful dripping fragments—the negligent list of one after another, as I happen to call them to me, or think of them, The… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Poetic style, when address'd to the Soul, is less definite form, outline, sculpture, and becomes vista, music, half-tints, and even less than… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — 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
