Walt Whitman Quotes
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. The real war will never get in the books. The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. To have great poets, there must be great audiences. To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. 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. We convince by our presence. Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. When I give, I give myself. Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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