Walt Whitman

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

Walt Whitman

A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars

Walt Whitman

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Walt Whitman

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women, If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Walt Whitman

A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but rather a beginning.

Walt Whitman

A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.

Walt Whitman

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

Walt Whitman

A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

Walt Whitman