3 December 2020 Walt Whitman There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
