Walt Whitman

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

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

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

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

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman

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

Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

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

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

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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

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

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

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

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman

I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman

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Type: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: May 31, 1819
Died: March 26, 1892

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt WhitmanA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt WhitmanAfter 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 All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. Walt WhitmanAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt WhitmanBehold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. Walt WhitmanGive me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt WhitmanHave 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 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 WhitmanHenceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. Walt WhitmanHow beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! Walt WhitmanI am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. Walt WhitmanI have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt WhitmanI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. Walt Whitman 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 If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. Walt Whitman Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt WhitmanOther lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. 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 The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. Walt WhitmanThe poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. Walt Whitman There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. Walt WhitmanTo the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt WhitmanWisdom 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 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 Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, 1855Now 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, Song of the Open Road

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