The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Walt Whitman More Quotes by Walt Whitman More Quotes From Walt Whitman To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman learning discovery science Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me. Walt Whitman love night long Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Walt Whitman cradle musical bird I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. Walt Whitman miracle prayer believe Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose. Walt Whitman different persons warning Produce great men, the rest follows. Walt Whitman example leadership men I am the man, I suffered, I was there. Walt Whitman he-man suffering men I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed. Walt Whitman sadness eye war Whoever degrades another degrades me. Walt Whitman degrade degradation You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. Walt Whitman who-i-am mean blood I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass empathy feels I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else. Walt Whitman time men thinking 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. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass waiting years A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman women cities life A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do. Walt Whitman kissing men children Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, Walt Whitman romantic-love kissing giving A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman nature morning beauty All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion. Walt Whitman procession action beautiful Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young. Walt Whitman young beautiful moving O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done. Walt Whitman sad inspirational death
