Walt Whitman Quotes

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

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethel...

If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.

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.

I tramp the perpetual journeyMy signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to...

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of...

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

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,

When I give I give myself.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

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

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,Arm'd and fearless, eating...

Song of myselfI am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff...