“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
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
TeacherAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
Great“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
Power“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Great“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Good“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
Time“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Teacher“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Great“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“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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Great“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Nature“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Great“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“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Art“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
Best“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
Friendship