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

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman

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

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

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman

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

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman

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

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman

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

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

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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

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

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Walt Whitman

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

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

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman

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

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman