“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death
“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.”
GodAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Great“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.”
Best“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
Power“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
Friendship“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
Truth“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Art“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Nature“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Nature“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.”
God“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.”
Great“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”
Freedom“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Great“The real war will never get in the books.”
War“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Great“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Future“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.”
Business“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
Funny“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?”
Great