“...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment, and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I conn'd old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The past and the present wilt. I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,… — 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
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution,… — 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… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness, I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times, Now… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the… — 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
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“All space, all time, The stars, the terrible perturbations of the suns, Swelling, collapsing, ending, serving their longer, shorter use, Fill'd with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not, I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the… — 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
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Shocked? I consider Bob one of the constellations of our time — of our country — America — a bright, magnificent constellation.… — 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
I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; — 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
“The law of the past can't be eluded, The law of the present and future cannot be eluded, The law of the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Have you ever loved the body of a woman? Have you ever loved the body of a man? Do you not see… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his… — 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… — 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
