The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Walt Whitman
Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman
Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
Walt Whitman
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman
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
Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms...the game of ball is glorious.
Walt Whitman
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.