Quotes from Walt Whitman

I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

I see great things in baseball.

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

I accept reality and dare not question it.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.