Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Quote by Walt Whitman

Topics: Walt Whitman Quotes

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 dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

The real war will never get in the books

The real war will never get in the books

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

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

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

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

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

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

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

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

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

If you done it, it ain't bragging.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly...

He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly...

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering...

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering...

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...

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

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

Simplicity is the glory of expression

Simplicity is the glory of expression

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...

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,...

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,...