Walt Whitman Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

“Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

“All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.”

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

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

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”

“O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.”