Walt Whitman
41 quotations
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).