Walt Whitman Quotes

1819-1892, American Poet
quotes
73
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“When I give I give myself.”
Giving
“We convince by our presence.”
Present
“If you done it, it ain't bragging.”
Conceit
“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.”
Burial
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
Example
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
Loneliness
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
Truth
“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
Character
“I accept reality and dare not question it.”
Reality
“Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.”
Freedom
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
Opposites
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death and Dying
“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.”
Obesity
“How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!”
Argument
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”
Audiences
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”
Books and Reading
“All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.”
Frankness
“Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”
Books and Reading
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Cities and City Life
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
Death and Dying
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Fortune
“I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.”
Self-love
“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Self-esteem
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Style
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Independence
“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.”
Things and Little Things
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Nature
“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
Time and Time Management
“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
Enemies