53 Quotes By Walt Whitman


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

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman on art

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

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

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 on best

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Walt Whitman on best

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

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 on business

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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman on death

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman on death

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman on freedom

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Walt Whitman on friendship

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman on funny

The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Walt Whitman on future

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman on god

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman on god

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.
Walt Whitman on god

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

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