Walt Whitman Quotes

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Walt Whitman

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 31, 1819

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Walt Whitman

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Walt Whitman