Quotations From WALT WHITMAN

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• 1.

  And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Starting From Paumanok, sct. 13.
  
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• 2.

  I will put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea—And
  I will report all heroism from an American point of view.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Starting From Paumanok, sct. 7.
  
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• 3.

  Rugged, mountainous, volcanic, he was himself more a French revolution than any of his volumes.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Specimen Days (Feb. 10, 1881).
• 4.

  O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Calamus: A Song of Joys," Leaves of Grass (1855).
  
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• 5.

  I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 31, Leaves of Grass (1855).
  
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• 6.

  The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Song of the Broad Axe, sct. 3.
  
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• 7.

  How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of the Broad Axe," sect. 6.
• 8.

  I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 24, Leaves of Grass (1855).
• 9.

  As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Leaves of Grass, preface (1855).
• 10.

  There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Leaves of Grass, preface (1855).
  
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