Walt Whitman Quotes – Explore the Wisdom of Leaves of Grass

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. – Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough. – Walt Whitman

Resist much, obey less. – Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental. – Walt Whitman

I am large, I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman

The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman

Trust the young, for they hold the future in their hands. – Walt Whitman

I exist as eternal as any. – Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women, I see God. – Walt Whitman

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

Do anything, but let it produce joy. – Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. – Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – Walt Whitman

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. – Walt Whitman

The most basic and necessary question to ask oneself, ‘Think you that your devotion ever ceases?’ – Walt Whitman

That you are here—that life exists, and identity. – Walt Whitman

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. – Walt Whitman

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise. – Walt Whitman

O Earth! How like to heaven, if not preferred, more sweet, than sweetest paradise! – Walt Whitman

I admire those who shed tears with a smile and a heart of gratitude at every glimpse of beauty. – Walt Whitman

A child said ‘What is the grass?’ fetching it to me with full hands. – Walt Whitman

I am that lucky poet in the draw, foraging around the universe for images and metaphors to stuff into my writing desk. – Walt Whitman

You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. – Walt Whitman

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself. – Walt Whitman

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman

You shall be more to me than my poem. – Walt Whitman

Let us go forth and enjoy the days and nights once more. – Walt Whitman

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable. – Walt Whitman

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another. – Walt Whitman

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul. – Walt Whitman

I worship beauty, and what are you more than beautiful? – Walt Whitman

I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy. – Walt Whitman

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. – Walt Whitman

I loaf and invite my soul. – Walt Whitman

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man. – Walt Whitman

I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea. – Walt Whitman

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I am cataloguing them. Essential to me, fine assay of my ruined blood, my heart and liver. – Walt Whitman

O Living Always, Always Dying! O the burials of me past and present! – Walt Whitman

I am he that aches with amorous love. – Walt Whitman

I exist as I am, that is enough. – Walt Whitman

The poet’s job is to create new forms, the most sacred of all for the human mind and spirit. – Walt Whitman