Quote: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). [Walt Whitman]
Quote: 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. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Nothing endures but personal qualities. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: The beautiful uncut hair of graves. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!) [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Produce great men, the rest follows. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: When I give I give myself. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: Be curious, not judgmental. [Walt Whitman]
Quote: This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. [Walt Whitman]