42 Inspiring Quotes by American Poet Walt Whitman

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

The beauty of independence departure actions that rely on themselves.

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

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

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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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

Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.

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

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

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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

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

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

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

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

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?

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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

To have great poets there must be great audiences.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Produce great men the rest follows.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world so far justice is always in jeopardy.

We convince by our presence.

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?

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

Produce great men the rest follows.

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

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

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

To have great poets there must be great audiences.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before Or else I am awake for the first time and all before has been a mean sleep.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me I accept Time absolutely.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

The real war will never get in the books.

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