Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

Walt Whitman

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Walt Whitman

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

Peace is always beautiful.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Walt Whitman

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman