There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that — Walt Whitman
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? — Walt Whitman
Whoever degrades another degrades me, and whatever is done or said returns at last to me. — Walt Whitman
What is that you express in your eyes? it seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman
Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. — Walt Whitman
The purpose of democracy — supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish’d dynastic rulership — Walt Whitman
Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks — Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? very well, then I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. — Walt Whitman