Walt Whitman

And that my Soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.

Walt Whitman

And to die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier. If no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content.

Walt Whitman

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what poetry is at its highest, as in the bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Walt Whitman

By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

Walt Whitman

Caution seldom goes far enough.

Walt Whitman

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

Walt Whitman