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Famous Walt Whitman Quotes
“The real war will never get in the books.”
“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.”
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”
“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”
“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”
“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.”
“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”
“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”
“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.”
“I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”
“I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”
“Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”
“not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.”
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”
“Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.”
“There is no God any more divine than Yourself.”
“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.”
“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.”
“Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
“I will not descend among professors and capitalists.”
“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”