Quotes from Walt Whitman
I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.
— Walt Whitman
Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid
— Walt Whitman
When I give, I give myself
— Walt Whitman
Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
— Walt Whitman
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
— Walt Whitman
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
— Walt Whitman
Are you the new person drawn toward me?
— Walt Whitman
My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them
— Walt Whitman
Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night! from Strophe 21, Song of Myself
— Walt Whitman
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
— Walt Whitman
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
— Walt Whitman