Walt Whitman Quotes

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.