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Walt Whitman20 quotes
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul. — Walt Whitman · 1888I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1855I celebrate myself, and sing myself. — Walt Whitman · 1855Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) — Walt Whitman · 1855America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. — Walt Whitman · 1855All 20 quotes →