I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of… — 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
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence… — 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
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall… — 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
