Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitmanwas an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 May 1819
CountryUnited States of America
Walt Whitman quotes about
I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over...
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.
I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.
Oh captain my captain