Quotes by Walt Whitman
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Whitman, Walt
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Whitman, Walt
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Whitman, Walt
You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things...
Whitman, Walt
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Whitman, Walt
Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Whitman, Walt
Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
Whitman, Walt
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Whitman, Walt
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Whitman, Walt
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
Whitman, Walt
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Whitman, Walt
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Whitman, Walt