Quotes by Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Friendship

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Education

Be curious, not judgmental.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

— Walt Whitman

Truth

When I give I give myself.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

— Walt Whitman

Education

We convince by our presence.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

— Walt Whitman

Success

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

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

— Walt Whitman

Wisdom