Walt Whitman Quotes
O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.
The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.
Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.
We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.
You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here
storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.
