Quotes from Walt Whitman

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

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

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.