Walt Whitman Quotes

Walt Whitman Quotes

Walt Whitman Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Walt Whitman:

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."

"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."

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

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."

"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give."

"If you done it, it ain't bragging."

"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

"How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!"

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about Go"