All Walt Whitman Quotes
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman in
Nature
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman in
Sports
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman in
Poetry
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
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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.
Walt Whitman
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