“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.”
Art
“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.”
TimeAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“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.”
Time“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”
Freedom“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
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“We convince by our presence.”
Inspirational“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Good“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.”
Time“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Great“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
Funny“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Great“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Great“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
Time“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Nature“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Future“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Great“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
Truth“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