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 Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass born lucky The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race. Walt Whitman making-love insulting race 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. Walt Whitman simplicity nature business 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 yoga dream mean The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life. Walt Whitman fruition chance missing The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them. Walt Whitman vacant majesty past Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass bears math You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in. Walt Whitman investing want way I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. Walt Whitman evil law action Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth. Walt Whitman spring night book 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. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass peaceful acceptance Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space. Walt Whitman detached ocean space I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am. Walt Whitman walt dozen everyday Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass locks doors To behold the day-break! Walt Whitman shadow light air I permit to speak at every hazard, Walt Whitman hazards energy speak Ah little recks the laborer, Walt Whitman time-and-space space littles You will hardly know who I am or what I mean Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass who-i-am mean Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul. Walt Whitman sight reality school And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grass miracle enough
