Walt Whitman

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God’s name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Walt Whitman

In this broad earth of ours, amid the measureless grossness and the slag, enclosed and safe within its central heart, nestles the seed of perfection.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Walt Whitman

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

Walt Whitman

Like a stone dropped into a pond, an article of that sort may spread out its concentric circles of consequences.

Walt Whitman

Logic and sermons never convince, the damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Walt Whitman

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Walt Whitman

Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.

Walt Whitman