Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 2

American - Poet May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem. - Walt Whitman

And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman

Poem, Very, Shall

We convince by our presence. - Walt Whitman

We convince by our presence. Walt Whitman

Inspirational, Convince, Our

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

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

Future, More, Than

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

Always, United States

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

Years, Goes, Thousand Years

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman

Men, City, Which

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. Walt Whitman

May, Young Man, Trade

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

Myself, Charity, Give

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

Week, Country, Tyranny

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

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

Funny, Doubt, No Doubt

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

Me, Desire, Meet

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

Single, Other, Speaking

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman

Great, Audiences, Must

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. Walt Whitman

Spirit, Which, Also

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. - Walt Whitman

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Walt Whitman

Die, Supposed, Luckier

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

Nothing, Been, Before

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

Still, Which, Ragged

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

Curious, Mankind, About

Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman

Brainy, Nothing, Endures

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

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

Body, Human Body, Any

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Walt Whitman

Last, Whoever, Another

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

Other, Vitality, Our People

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

Will, Nothing, Exterior

I accept reality and dare not question it. - Walt Whitman

I accept reality and dare not question it. Walt Whitman

Reality, Question, Dare

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. Walt Whitman

Freedom, Superior, Own

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? Walt Whitman

Thoughts, Large, Descend

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