Walt Whitman Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“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?”

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

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

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

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

“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”

“Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?”

“Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.”