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 I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. Walt Whitman Sports, Great, Baseball Add to Collection 8 The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman Greatest, United States Add to Collection 9 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 10 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 11 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 12 The future is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman Future, Present, More Add to Collection 13 Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Walt Whitman Good, Myself, Fortune Add to Collection 14 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 15 And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman Great, Poem, Flesh Add to Collection 16 Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Walt Whitman Seeing, Feeling Add to Collection 17 I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. Walt Whitman Fat, Find, Own Add to Collection 18 I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. Walt Whitman God, Understand, Curious Add to Collection 19 After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman Nature, Business, Politics Add to Collection 20 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. Walt Whitman Sleep, Best, Earth Add to Collection 21 All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt Whitman Perfect, May, Him Add to Collection 22 Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Walt Whitman Done, Said Add to Collection 23 If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman Body, Human Body, Human Add to Collection 24 Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? Walt Whitman Learning, Great Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 next › last »
