Walt Whitman

The real war will never get in the books.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

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.

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.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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

We convince by our presence.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

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.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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?