Walt Whitman Quotes
In the faces of men and women I see God.
- Walt Whitman
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained,I stand and look at them long and long.
- Walt Whitman
No doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.
- Walt Whitman
Why are there trees I never walk under But large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
- Walt Whitman
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.
- Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
- Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- Walt Whitman
I accept reality and dare not question it.
- Walt Whitman
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
- Walt Whitman
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- Walt Whitman
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Walt Whitman
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.
- Walt Whitman
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
- Walt Whitman
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Walt Whitman
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
- Walt Whitman
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
- Walt Whitman


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