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
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
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
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
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
The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them. — 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
“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
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
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
You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed… — 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
“Gliding o’er all, through all,Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life… — 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
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
