Walt Whitman Quotes

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Walt Whitman

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

We convince by our presence.

Walt Whitman

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman