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

When I give, I give myself.
Walt Whitman

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

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

The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman

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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman