Walt Whitman Quotes

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Camerado this is no book. Who touches this touches a man.

It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity When I give I give myself.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

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.

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

When I give I give myself.