Explore Quotes by Walt Whitman

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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

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.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

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

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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