Famous Walt Whitman Quotes

  • I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman

    I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.– Walt Whitman

  • Oh captain my captain – Walt Whitman

    Oh captain my captain– Walt Whitman

  • Urge and urge and urge,Always the procreant urge of the world. – Walt Whitman

    Urge and urge and urge,Always the procreant urge of the world.– Walt Whitman

  • The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. – Walt Whitman

    The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.– Walt Whitman

  • If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred. – Walt Whitman

    If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.– Walt Whitman

  • I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself…and let sound contribute toward me. – Walt Whitman

    I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,And accrue what I hear into myself…and let sound contribute toward me.– Walt Whitman

  • Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself! – Walt Whitman

    Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.As if I were not puzzled at myself!– Walt Whitman

  • To touch my person to some one else’s is about as much as I can stand, – Walt Whitman

    To touch my person to some one else’s is about as much as I can stand,– Walt Whitman

  • Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman

    Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.– Walt Whitman

  • 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.– Walt Whitman