Walt Whitman
41 quotations
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
When I give I give myself.
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Be curious, not judgmental.
O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
We convince by our presence.
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
I accept reality and dare not question it.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.