Source: Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index
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Famous Walt Whitman Quotes
Source: Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman
“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
Source: Selected poems
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Source: Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
Source: Poems
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“I accept reality and dare not question it.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“We convince by our presence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
“All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.”
Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose
Source: The Portable Walt Whitman
“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
“The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”