Source: Leaves of Grass
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Famous Walt Whitman Quotes
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
Source: Selected poems
“Are you the new person drawn toward me?”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
Source: Leaves of Grass
“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
Source: Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary
Source: Song of Myself, and Other Poems
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.”
Source: Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary
Source: Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love:
“I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.”
Source: Whitman: The Mystic Poets
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
“A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations
Source: Leaves of Grass
“But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”
Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
Source: The best of Whitman
“And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
Source: Song of Myself
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
Source: Walt Whitman's
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.”
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“I tramp a perpetual journey.”
Source: Walt Whitman
“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”
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
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867