Walt Whitman

Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

Resist much, obey little.

Walt Whitman

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over our travel’d road.

Walt Whitman

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

Walt Whitman

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Walt Whitman

The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

Walt Whitman

There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

Walt Whitman

Those things most listened for, certainly those are the things least said.

Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Walt Whitman