There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman More Quotes by Walt Whitman More Quotes From Walt Whitman A man can be a hero in any profession Walt Whitman profession hero men O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! Walt Whitman voice land summer I know I am deathless We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass summer winter Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman land class america But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound? Walt Whitman long-ago long My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision. Walt Whitman vision ties sea The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion. Walt Whitman rhyming arbitrary passion Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. Walt Whitman umpires judging justice I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. Walt Whitman deeds doe thinking A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize. Walt Whitman smell cities song The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Walt Whitman freedom wise men The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them Walt Whitman ardor wrenches orchestra O amazement of things-even the least particle! Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass amazement science When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. Walt Whitman learning stars time I will not descend among professors and capitalists. Walt Whitman professors capitalist To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman artist real humanity I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman sad inspirational-life appreciation Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.) Walt Whitman gay body men What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race? Walt Whitman mexico noble race I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day. Walt Whitman thinking-about-you minutes thinking
