Walt Whitman quotes

“I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.”

— Walt Whitman

“I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?”

— Walt Whitman

“Produce great men, the rest follows.”

— Walt Whitman

“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.”

— Walt Whitman

“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.”

— Walt Whitman

“The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”

— Walt Whitman

“The real war will never get in the books.”

— Walt Whitman

“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”

— Walt Whitman

“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

— Walt Whitman

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

— Walt Whitman

“Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.”

— Walt Whitman

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?”

— Walt Whitman

“And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”

— Walt Whitman

“Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.”

— Walt Whitman

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

— Walt Whitman

“The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.”

— Walt Whitman

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

— Walt Whitman

“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.”

— Walt Whitman