The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

- Walt Whitman

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

- Walt Whitman

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

- Walt Whitman

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

- Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

- Walt Whitman

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

- Walt Whitman

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

- 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

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

- Walt Whitman

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

- Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Whitman

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

- Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

- Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Whitman

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

- 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