Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

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The American poet, essayist and journalist Walt Whitman is someone whose pithy observations have become part of everyday conversation. Walt Whitman's observations on Great are as sharp as their thoughts on Nature, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 49 quotes by Walt Whitman that cover ground from Great, Nature, Best, Time, and Good. To get a sense of their style, try: "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”

— Walt Whitman

Freedom

All Quotes by Walt Whitman

“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”

— Walt Whitman

Time

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”

— Walt Whitman

Friendship

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

— Walt Whitman

Cool

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

— Walt Whitman

Teacher

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

— Walt Whitman

Great

“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”

— Walt Whitman

History

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”

— Walt Whitman

Great

“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”

— Walt Whitman

Freedom

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

— Walt Whitman

Death

“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.”

— Walt Whitman

Art

“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.”

— Walt Whitman

Business

“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.”

— Walt Whitman

God

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

— Walt Whitman

Great

“The real war will never get in the books.”

— Walt Whitman

War

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

— Walt Whitman

Good

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

— Walt Whitman

Best

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

— Walt Whitman

Beauty

“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.”

— Walt Whitman

Best

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

— Walt Whitman

Truth

“We convince by our presence.”

— Walt Whitman

Inspirational