Walt Whitman Quotes

"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 in Nature quotes.

"You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things."
-Walt Whitman in Nature quotes.

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
-Walt Whitman in Friendship quotes.

"The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."
-Walt Whitman in Poetry quotes.

"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
-Walt Whitman

"There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."
-Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
-Walt Whitman

"Be curious, not judgmental."
-Walt Whitman

"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."
-Walt Whitman in America quotes.

"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."
-Walt Whitman

"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people."
-Walt Whitman in America quotes.

"Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you, / You must travel it for yourself."
-Walt Whitman

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
-Walt Whitman in Art quotes.

"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 in God quotes.

"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
-Walt Whitman

"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give."
-Walt Whitman

"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

"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
-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."
-Walt Whitman in Failure quotes.

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."
-Walt Whitman in Wisdom quotes.

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
-Walt Whitman

"What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
-Walt Whitman

"Either define the moment or the moment will define you."
-Walt Whitman

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
-Walt Whitman

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
-Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
-Walt Whitman

"How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!"
-Walt Whitman