Quotes from Walt Whitman

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.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; So long!And I hope we shall meet again.

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

We convince by our presence.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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.

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Oh captain my captain

I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell