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

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.

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.

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.

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

– Walt Whitman

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

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.

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.

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.

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

– Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.

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

If you done it, it ain’t bragging.

– Walt Whitman

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

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

 

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