And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Quote by Walt Whitman

Topics: Walt Whitman Quotes

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to...

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to...

The real war will never get in the books

The real war will never get in the books

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a...

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a...

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this...

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this...

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I...

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I...

The real war will never get in the books.

The real war will never get in the books.

Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything

Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he...

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he...

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his...

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his...

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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

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

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of...

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of...

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches,...

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches,...

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

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

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes...

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes...