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

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