Walt Whitman Quotes

Rugged, mountainous, volcanic, he was himself more a French revolution than any of his volumes.

I will put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.

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

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.