Walt Whitman: Quotes

• Animals

  I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
  I stand and look at them long and long.
  
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  They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
  Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
  Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
  Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

• Body and Face

  If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

• Brotherhood

  Whoever degrades another degrades me,
  And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
  Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

• Consistency

  Do I contradict myself?
  Very well then I contradict myself,
  (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
  Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

• Gifts and Giving

  Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity,
  When I give I give myself.
  Walt Whitman: Leaves ofGrass

• Rights

  As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.Walt Whitman

• The Self

  I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
  And what I assume you shall assume,
  For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
  Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

• The Self

  I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
  And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is.
  Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass