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Walt Whitman [1819-1892] American

Rank: 4
Poet (with poems)

Humanism, Realism, Transcendentalism, Free verse, Didactism, Deism, Pantheism, Bipolar disorder, War, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Expressionism, Homoerotism

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works.

Best, Nature, Inspirational, Art, Death, God, Good, Great, Time, Beauty, Brainy, Business, Cool, Freedom, Friendship, Funny, Future, History, Independence, Learning, Politics, Power, Romantic, Sports, Sympathy, Teacher, Truth, War

Quote	Tags	Rank
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.	Inspirational	75
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.	Best, God, Good	102
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.	Cool	103
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.	Friendship	104
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.		105
Be curious, not judgmental.		106
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.	Art	107
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.	Nature	108
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.	Time	109
Simplicity is the glory of expression.		110
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.		111
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.	Best	112
We convince by our presence.	Inspirational	113
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.	Great	114
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.		115
The future is no more uncertain than the present.	Future	116
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.	Art	117
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.	Nature	118
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.		119
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.	Best	120
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.	Truth	121
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.		122
I accept reality and dare not question it.		123
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.	Business, Nature, Politics	124
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.		125
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.	Funny	126
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.	God	201
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.	Time	202
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.	Power	203
If you done it, it ain't bragging.		204
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.		205
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.		206
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.	Freedom	207
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.	Beauty, Independence	208
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.	Good	209
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.	Inspirational	210
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.		211
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.		212
I exist as I am, that is enough.		213
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?		214
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.	Sports	215
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.	Nature	216
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.		217
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.		218
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?		219
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?		220
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.		221
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.		222
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.		223
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?	Learning	224
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.	Sympathy	225
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.		226
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.	Death	301
The real war will never get in the books.	War	302
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.	Best	303
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?		304
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.	Death	305
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.	Great	306
When I give I give myself.	Romantic	307
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.		308
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.		309
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.		310
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.		311
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.	History	312
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.		313
Nothing endures but personal qualities.	Brainy	314
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.		315
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.		316
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.	Teacher	317
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.		318
Produce great men, the rest follows.		319
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.		320
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.		321
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.		322
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.		323
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.		324
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.		325
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.		326

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