Walt Whitman Quotes

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

These are the days that must happen to you.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

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

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

The real war will never get in the books.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

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.

Peace is always beautiful.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The art of art... is simplicity.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.