Walt Whitman Quotes

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

Large, Contradict, Contain

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

Sunshine, Keep, Face

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

Dark, Light, Moment

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman

Best, Good, God

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman

Soul, Insults, Dismiss

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman

Funny, Doubt, Friends

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

Learning, Great, Learned

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.
Walt Whitman

May, Country, Lose

Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman

Curious, Judgmental

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

Friendship, Enough, Learned

When I give, I give myself.
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

Nature, Politics, Business

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

Sports, Great, Game

I exist as I am, that is enough.
Walt Whitman

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.
Walt Whitman

Life, Live, Powerful

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman

Happy, Single, Together

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

Give, Charity, Behold

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

Nature, Stars, Less

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

Nature, Books, Window

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman

Cool, Before, Soul

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.
Walt Whitman

Time, Sleep, Nothing

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

Nature, Beautiful, Sunrise

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

Best, Genius, United

If you done it, it ain't bragging.
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.
Walt Whitman

Best, Sleep, Person

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 31, 1819

Died: March 26, 1892

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