1. “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” – Walt Whitman
2. “I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place.” – Walt Whitman
3. “A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.” – Walt Whitman
4. ”Nothing endures but personal qualities.” – Walt Whitman
5. “When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.” – Walt Whitman
6. “So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel’d road.” – Walt Whitman
7. “I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” – Walt Whitman
8. “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.” – Walt Whitman
9. “Those who love each other shall become invincible.” – Walt Whitman
10. ”Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman
11. “From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines.” – Walt Whitman
12. “I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.” – Walt Whitman
13. “Dismiss whatever insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
14. ”I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” – Walt Whitman
15. “Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.” – Walt Whitman
16. “The young are beautiful – but the old are more beautiful than the young.” – Walt Whitman
17. “Thinking Of You, Sunshine, Thinking About You” – Walt Whitman
18. “Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” – Walt Whitman
19. “I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers.” – Walt Whitman
20. ”The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.” – Walt Whitman
21. “Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, – Walt Whitman
22. “Clear and sweet is my soul . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack” – Walt Whitman
23. “The Past – the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf – the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?” – Walt Whitman
24. “By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.” – Walt Whitman
25. “I refuse putting from me the best that I am.” – Walt Whitman
26. “A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.” – Walt Whitman
27. “In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.” – Walt Whitman
28. ”I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” – Walt Whitman
29. “Over all the sky – the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.” – Walt Whitman
30. “Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.” – Walt Whitman
31. “Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.” – Walt Whitman
32. “The real war will never get in the books.” – Walt Whitman
33. “Whoever degrades another degrades me.” – Walt Whitman
34. “There will never be any more perfection than there is now.” – Walt Whitman
35. “And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.” – Walt Whitman
36. “You will hardly know who I am or what I mean.” – Walt Whitman
37. “The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.” – Walt Whitman
38. “The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.” – Walt Whitman
39. “Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” – Walt Whitman
40. “I have said that the soul is not more than the body, – Walt Whitman
41. “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” – Walt Whitman
42. “God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.” – Walt Whitman
43. “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.” – Walt Whitman
44. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” – Walt Whitman
45. “All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, – Walt Whitman
46. ”Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.” – Walt Whitman
47. “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.” – Walt Whitman
48. “All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.” – Walt Whitman
49. “And your very flesh shall be a great poem” – Walt Whitman
50. “I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise.” – Walt Whitman
51. “Life doesn’t give you the people you want, it gives you the people you need: to love you, to hate you, to make you, to break you, and to make you the person you were meant to be.” – Walt Whitman
52. ”Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman
53. “Either define the moment or the moment will define you.” – Walt Whitman
54. “Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.” – Walt Whitman
55. “Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.” – Walt Whitman
56. “And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.” – Walt Whitman
57. “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” – Walt Whitman
58. “I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” – Walt Whitman
59. “The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.” – Walt Whitman
60. “The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.” – Walt Whitman
61. ”If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.” – Walt Whitman
62. “You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, you shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.” – Walt Whitman
63. “Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.” – Walt Whitman
64. “What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?” – Walt Whitman
65. “it makes such difference where you read” – Walt Whitman
66. “Strong and content I travel the open road.” – Walt Whitman
67. “Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.” – Walt Whitman
68. “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” – Walt Whitman
69. “Most works are most beautiful without ornament.” – Walt Whitman
70. “Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.” – Walt Whitman
71. “I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.” – Walt Whitman
72. “In the faces of men and women, I see God.” – Walt Whitman
73. “I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.” – Walt Whitman
74. “These are the days that must happen to you.” – Walt Whitman
75. “I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.” – Walt Whitman
76. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
77. “I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” – Walt Whitman
78. ”The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman
79. “All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.” – Walt Whitman
80. “Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.” – Walt Whitman
81. “Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.” – Walt Whitman
82. “If you done it, it ain’t bragging.” – Walt Whitman
83. “Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed – those who saw it differently from you?” – Walt Whitman
84. “Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.” – Walt Whitman
85. “Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman
86. “I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” – Walt Whitman
87. “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.” – Walt Whitman
88. “There was never any more inception than there is now,/ Nor any more youth or age than there is now;/ And will never be any more perfection than there is now,/ Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now./ The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” – Walt Whitman
89. “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.” – Walt Whitman
90. “The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.” – Walt Whitman
91. ”Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
92. “There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.” – Walt Whitman
93. “Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.” – Walt Whitman
94. “I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.” – Walt Whitman
95. “Simplicity is the glory of expression.” – Walt Whitman
96. “I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!” – Walt Whitman
97. “I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.” – Walt Whitman
98. “Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!” – Walt Whitman
99. “Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.” – Walt Whitman
100. “The past and the present wilt. I have fill’d them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.” – Walt Whitman
101. ”After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” – Walt Whitman
102. “After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” – Walt Whitman
103. “I exist as I am, that is enough,” – Walt Whitman
104. ”I exist as I am, that is enough.” – Walt Whitman
105. “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.” – Walt Whitman
106. “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman
107. “not I, not anyone else can travel that road for you, you must travel for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
108. “I and this mystery, here we stand.” – Walt Whitman
109. “If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.” – Walt Whitman
110. “The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.” – Walt Whitman
111. “The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” – Walt Whitman
112. “The future is no more uncertain than the present.” – Walt Whitman
113. “We all have great things on our bucket lists like skydiving, seeing the Northern Lights etc, but what about simply falling in love? Isn’t that the most amazing thing we can do?” – Walt Whitman
114. “There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.” – Walt Whitman
115. “And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.” – Walt Whitman
116. “When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.” – Walt Whitman
117. “I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.” – Walt Whitman
118. “Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.” – Walt Whitman
119. “And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.” – Walt Whitman
120. ”Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.” – Walt Whitman
121. “Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.” – Walt Whitman
122. “The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer…” – Walt Whitman
123. “The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.” – Walt Whitman
124. “The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.” – Walt Whitman
125. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” – Walt Whitman
126. “The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.” – Walt Whitman
127. “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.” – Walt Whitman
128. “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, – Walt Whitman
129. “To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.” – Walt Whitman
130. “I think I could always live with animals. The more you’re around people, the more you love animals.” – Walt Whitman
131. ”Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
132. “Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
133. “I am large ,I contain multitudes” – Walt Whitman
134. “A man can be a hero in any profession” – Walt Whitman
135. “Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” – Walt Whitman
136. ”I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” – Walt Whitman
137. “For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?” – Walt Whitman
138. “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.” – Walt Whitman
139. “Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman
140. “My words itch at your ears till you understand them” – Walt Whitman
141. “Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.” – Walt Whitman
142. “I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, – Walt Whitman
143. “Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” – Walt Whitman
144. “And I become the other dreamers.” – Walt Whitman
145. “Love, that is day and night – love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.” – Walt Whitman
146. “There is no God any more divine than Yourself.” – Walt Whitman
147. “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
148. ”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
149. “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for.” – Walt Whitman
150. ”I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
151. “I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.” – Walt Whitman
152. ”The future is no more uncertain than the present.” – Walt Whitman
153. “Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.” – Walt Whitman
154. “Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.” – Walt Whitman
155. “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman
156. “We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman
157. “All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.” – Walt Whitman
158. “Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.” – Walt Whitman
159. “Resist much, obey little.” – Walt Whitman
160. “Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” – Walt Whitman
161. “I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.” – Walt Whitman
162. “All truths wait in all things.” – Walt Whitman
163. “All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.” – Walt Whitman
164. “The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.” – Walt Whitman
165. ”All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.” – Walt Whitman
166. “Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.” – Walt Whitman
167. “It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.” – Walt Whitman
168. “There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became…” – Walt Whitman
169. “I am enamour’d of growing out-doors.” – Walt Whitman