Walt Whitman Quotes

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Said, Whoever, Done, Whatever

• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Soul, Truth

  Tags in Satisfaction, Whatever, Satisfies

• We convince by our presence.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Presence, Present

• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Composition, Viewed, Growth, Time, Race, Language

• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Called, Picturesque, Manners, Significant, Journalist, Literature

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unspeakably, Miracle

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Supposed

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Education, Genius, Power

  Tags in Mocks, Freshness, Unconscious, Illiterate, Expressive, Indescribable

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Week, Defiance, People, Enter, Tyranny, Spirit, Journalist, Day

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Objects, Things and Little Things, Soft, Hub, Universe, Journalist

• The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Words, Drift, Books - Reading, Action, Journalist

• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humankind, Individual, Theory, Unerring, Universe, Miscellaneous

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Tags in States, Poem, United States

• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Potent, Shallow, Journalist, Man, Law

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

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Him, Poet, Poetry, Journalist

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in City, Dragged, Ragged, Hut, Women, Great, Journalist

• 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

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in United States, Legislatures, Ambassador, People, Common

• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Uncertain, Present

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Censorship, Journalist, Book, Books

• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Independence, Departure, Rely, Action

Walt Whitman (117)

Birth:	31st May, 1819
Death:	26th March, 1892
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Humanist, Journalist, Poet

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