Walt Whitman Quotes

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Walt Whitman

Profession : Poet

Birth : May 31, 1819

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Walt Whitman

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Walt Whitman

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Walt Whitman