“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.”
ArtAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Teacher“We convince by our presence.”
Inspirational“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“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“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Sympathy“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”
Future“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Beauty“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Art“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
Funny“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Cool“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“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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
Good“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”
Friendship“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“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Great“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Nature