106 Quotations by Walt Whitman
- 81. The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?
- 82. The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
- 83. The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, ...
- 84. The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
- 85. The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.
- 86. Their manners, speech, dress, friendships -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the pi ...
- 87. There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
- 88. There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose t ...
- 89. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an ...
- 90. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for th ...
- 91. This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.
- 92. This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant thre ...
- 93. This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every o ...
- 94. To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
- 95. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
- 96. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
- 97. To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and signi ...
- 98. Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of ...
- 99. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
- 100. We convince by our presence.
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