Walt Whitman Quotes

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

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

In the faces of men and women I see God and in my own face in the glass I find letters from God dropt in the street and every one is signed by God's name and I leave them where they are for I know that wheresoever I go others will punctually come for ever and ever.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orc

I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them.