Walt Whitman

"We were together. I forget the rest."

- Walt Whitman

"You are so much sunshine in every square inch."

- Walt Whitman

"They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him / They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with personal love."

- Walt Whitman

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."

- Walt Whitman

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

- Walt Whitman

"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."

- Walt Whitman

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

- Walt Whitman

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"I tramp a perpetual journey."

- Walt Whitman

"Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land."

- Walt Whitman

"Resist much, obey little."

- Walt Whitman

"Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."

- Walt Whitman

"The secret of it all is to write… without waiting for a fit time or place."

- Walt Whitman

"Be curious, not judgmental."

- Walt Whitman

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

- Walt Whitman

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

- Walt Whitman

"Political democracy … with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first class men. It is life’s gymnasium, not of good only, but of all."

- Walt Whitman

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you"

- Walt Whitman

"How it all nourishes, lulls me, in the way most needed; the open air, the rye-fields, the apple orchards."

- Walt Whitman

"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."

- Walt Whitman

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

""Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.""

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you"

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

""Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.""

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine– and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face toward the sunshine and shadows will always fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you"

- Walt Whitman

"I see great things in baseball."

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Whitman

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

- Walt Whitman

"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

"Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me."

- Walt Whitman

"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."

- Walt Whitman

"Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between [people], and their beliefs – in religion, literature, colleges and schools – democracy in all public and private life…"

- Walt Whitman

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

- Walt Whitman

"Peace is always beautiful."

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Whitman

"I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me."

- Walt Whitman