Walt Whitman
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.Collection: Best
We convince by our presence.Collection: Inspirational
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.Collection: Inspirational
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.Collection: Great
The future is no more uncertain than the present.Collection: Future
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.Collection: Inspirational
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Nature
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.Collection: Good
Nothing endures but personal qualities.Collection: Brainy
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.Collection: Independence
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.Collection: Power
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.Collection: Freedom
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.Collection: Sports
When I give I give myself.Collection: Romantic
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.Collection: Nature
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.Collection: Death
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.Collection: Nature
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.Collection: Truth
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.Collection: Friendship
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.Collection: Great
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.Collection: Best
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.Collection: Sympathy
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.Collection: God
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.Collection: Nature
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?Collection: Learning
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.Collection: Art
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.Collection: Death
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.Collection: Funny
Produce great men, the rest follows.Collection: Men
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.Collection: Cool
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.Collection: Teacher
The real war will never get in the books.Collection: War
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.Collection: History
Be curious, not judgmental.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
I exist as I am, that is enough.
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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.
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.
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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.
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.