Walt Whitman - Best Quotes

War

The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

The real war will never get in the books.

Truth

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Time

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

Walt Whitman

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

Time

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.

Walt Whitman

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.

Time

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.

Walt Whitman

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.

Teacher

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

Walt Whitman

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

Sympathy

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

Walt Whitman

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

Power

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

Walt Whitman

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

Nature

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

Walt Whitman

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

Nature

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

Walt Whitman

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

Nature

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

Walt Whitman

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

Inspirational

We convince by our presence.

Walt Whitman

We convince by our presence.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: 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.