Walt Whitman

"Nothing endures but personal qualities."

"Who has gone farthest? Who is willing to try?"

"The powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

"Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"

"I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier."

"One touch of a noble nature makes the whole world kin."

"I am a man, I do not inform against any man."

"Produce great Persons, the rest follows."

"Democracy! Near at hand to us the Promised Land."

"I will not have a single lamenting word spoken about those United States."

"Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth."

"These States are the ample poem."

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

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

"Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, as I pass."

"Song of the universal, come, I sing the song of the universal."

"I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs."

"I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd."

"I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning."

"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean."

"O the joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds."

"A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking."

"Come, I will make the continent indissoluble."

"I am the poet of commonsense and of the demonstrable."

"Did you think, because I am of sick and pale, I was in any doubt about you?"

"Give me the pay I have earn'd."

"I hear it was charged against me that I sought to destroy institutions."

"Vigorous life, full of joyfulness, beauty, and power."

"In the new garden of the modern world."

"All the things of the universe are perfect miracles."