Walt Whitman

"To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle."

"I am not content with a passing word, I would like to infuse my meaning into you."

"Through the ample open door of the peaceful country mansion."

"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorb'd it."

"Stranger! If you passing meet me and desire to speak with me, why should you not speak with me?"

"I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name."

"Democracy is entirely expressive of the American people."

"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume."

"Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?"

"Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."

"The female equally with the male I sing."

"I hear the trained soprano singing in the theatre."

"Good health is the condition of all good things."

"I know that pleasure and freedom, the essentials of health."

"O that I could once see the time when the men decide to settle their differences like gentlemen!"

"I am satisfied. I see, dance, laugh, sing."

"When the Muses come they shake me, they make unhappy, restless."

"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable."

"Come closer to me. Push right up close to me, friend."

"I sing the Body Electric."

"For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

"I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there."

"These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands."

"The earth, that is sufficient."

"Freedom—to walk free and own no superior!"

"I have said that the body is not more than the soul."

"Be not ashamed women, you are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul."

"There is no reality except the one dramatic moment into which all moments are collected."

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