Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island, New York, U.S., and died on March 26, 1892, in Camden, New Jersey. His full name is Walter Whitman. A poet, journalist, and essayist whose 1855 verse collection Leaves of Grass is considered a landmark in the history of American literature.
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Walt Whitman Quotes:
- Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
- Produce great men, the rest follows.
- All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
- 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.
- Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- Be curious, not judgmental.
- Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
- 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?
- A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
- The real war will never get in the books.
- The future is no more uncertain than the present.
- Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- I exist as I am, that is enough.
- Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
- 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.
- To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
