Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Walt Whitman

Freedom: to walk free and own no superior

Walt Whitman

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Walt Whitman

Give me solitude – give me Nature – give me again, O Nature, your primal sanities!

Walt Whitman

Give me such shows – give me the streets of Manhattan!

Walt Whitman

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Walt Whitman

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman