Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
– Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
– Walt Whitman
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
– Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
– Walt Whitman
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
– Walt Whitman
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
– Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
– Walt Whitman
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
– Walt Whitman
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
– Walt Whitman
Be curious, not judgmental.
– Walt Whitman
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
– Walt Whitman
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
– Walt Whitman
If you done it, it ain’t bragging.
– Walt Whitman
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
– Walt Whitman
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
– Walt Whitman