Quotes by Walt Whitman

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Out of every fruition of success no matter what comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

We convince by our presence.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

The real war will never get in the books.

I see great things in baseball. Its our game - the American game.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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