O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

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

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

Peace is always beautiful.

Walt Whitman

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

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

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

Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

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

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

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

Walt Whitman

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman