Memorable Quotes and quotations from Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman US poet (1819 - 1892)


Walt Whitman -
- If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman -
- I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman - Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855
- The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman -
- Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"
- Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman - "Leaves of Grass"
- Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

Walt Whitman - "Leaves of Grass"
- Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Walt Whitman -
- I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman - Song of Myself, 1855
- I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman - Song of the Open Road
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
- I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman -
- The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
- Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman -
- Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Walt Whitman -
- The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman -
- Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman -
- This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.

Walt Whitman - Song of the Open Road
- Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Walt Whitman -
- The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Walt Whitman -
- Nothing endures but personal qualities.