Walt Whitman Quotes

Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!

I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.

"the old name absorbs into me — MANNAHATTA, "the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me, In the day among crowds of people sometimes they came upon me, In my walks home late at night or as I lay in my bed they came upon me.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow,
An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,
High in the purer, happier air.

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

he cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one

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

Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?

Beyond thy lectures learn’d professor,
Beyond thy telescope or spectroscope observer keen, beyond all mathematics
...
The entities of entities, eidólons.

Unfix’d yet fix’d,
Ever shall be, ever have been and are, Sweeping the present to the infinite future,
Eidólons, eidólons, eidólons.