To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – 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
Produce great men, the rest follows. – Walt Whitman
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. – Walt Whitman
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. – Walt Whitman
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? – Walt Whitman
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. – Walt Whitman
The future is no more uncertain than the present. – Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. – Walt Whitman
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior. – Walt Whitman
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. – Walt Whitman
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. – 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
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. – Walt Whitman
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. – Walt Whitman
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. – Walt Whitman
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. – Walt Whitman
