The best Walt Whitman quotes are repeated and retold even today. Walt Whitman had a way with words that told the story of America, the common man, inner peace, and nature in a time when the story needed telling. Which of the many Walt Whitman quotes is the best is a matter of opinion. Here, in my opinion, are the best Walt Whitman quotes.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER ONE
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWO
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER THREE
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral dressed in his shroud
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER FOUR
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER FIVE
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER SIX
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER SEVEN
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?
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER EIGHT
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER NINE
I accept reality and dare not question it.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TEN
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.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER ELEVEN
I exist as I am, that is enough .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWELVE
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER THIRTEEN
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER FOURTEEN
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER FIFTEEN
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER SIXTEEN
If you done it, it ain’t bragging.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER SEVENTEEN
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER EIGHTEEN
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 .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER NINETEEN
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY ONE
Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul .
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY TWO
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY THREE
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don’t you let it out then?
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY FOUR
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY FIVE
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY SIX
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY SEVEN
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY EIGHT
We convince by our presence.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER TWENTY NINE
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.
BEST WALT WHITMAN QUOTES NUMBER THIRTY
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all .
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