Walt Whitman Quotes

Walt Whitman Quotes & Sayings

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



If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. - Walt Whitman



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. - Walt Whitman



Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). [Leaves of Grass, 1855] - Walt Whitman



I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. - Walt Whitman



Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul. - Walt Whitman



There is an indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. - Walt Whitman



The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. - Walt Whitman



Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. - Walt Whitman