Walt Whitman Quotes

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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

I exist as I am, that is enough.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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.

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.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Be curious, not judgmental.

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

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.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

The real war will never get in the books.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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