Home » Walt Whitman Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1 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. Walt Whitman Great, Man, Woman Add to Collection 2 I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? Walt Whitman Universe, Years, Said Add to Collection 3 Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. Walt Whitman History, Justice, World Add to Collection 4 Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman People, Class, Other Add to Collection 5 He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. Walt Whitman Teacher, Style, Destroy Add to Collection 6 Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. Walt Whitman Time, Accept Add to Collection 7 A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman Women, Great, Men Add to Collection 8 I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. Walt Whitman Time, Sleep, Self Confidence Add to Collection 9 The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. Walt Whitman Book, Words, Everything Add to Collection 10 There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. Walt Whitman Universe, Soft, Object Add to Collection 11 The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. Walt Whitman Beauty, Independence Add to Collection 12 Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. Walt Whitman Fools, Old, New Add to Collection 13 The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Walt Whitman Wise, Man, Law Add to Collection 14 To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman Humanity, Artist, Real Add to Collection 15 I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman Reality, Accept, Question Add to Collection 16 I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. Walt Whitman Sports, Great, Baseball Add to Collection 17 The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman Greatest, United States Add to Collection 18 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. Walt Whitman Day, Week, People Add to Collection 19 The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Walt Whitman Country, Him, Poet Add to Collection 20 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. Walt Whitman Life, Powerful Add to Collection 21 The future is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman Future, Present, More Add to Collection 22 Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Walt Whitman Good, Myself, Fortune Add to Collection 23 I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Walt Whitman Art, Past, Democracy Add to Collection 24 And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman Great, Poem, Flesh Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
