Walt Whitman Quotes

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

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?

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Argue not concerning God, …re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…

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.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!

I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.

O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

ThoughtOf equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chancesand rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

I see great things in baseball.

Give me such shows--give me the streets of Manhattan!

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.