Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
~ Walt Whitman
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.
I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.
We convince by our presence.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
The real war will never get in the books.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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?
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.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
When I give I give myself.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
