Source: Leaves of Grass
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Famous Walt Whitman Quotes
“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.”
Source: Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary
“There will never be any more perfection than there is now.”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.”
Source: Poems by Walt Whitman
“And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.”
Source: Selected poems
“O amazement of things-even the least particle!”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867