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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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

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

Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman

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

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman

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

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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 great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman