Walt Whitman Quote Generator

1.  "The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book." - Walt Whitman

2.  "The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life Exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, And you may contribute a verse." - Walt Whitman

3.  "This hour I tell things in confidence I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you." - Walt Whitman

4.  "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless - of cities fill'd with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light - of the objects mean - of the struggle ever renew'd; Of the poor results of all - of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me; Of the empty and useless years of the rest - with the rest me intertwined; The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse." - Walt Whitman

5.  "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land." - Walt Whitman

6.  "I think I could turn and live with animals, they're so placid and self contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. 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 earth." - Walt Whitman

7.  "I exist as I am, that is enough." - Walt Whitman

8.  "Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light And of every moment of your life" - Walt Whitman

9.  "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

10.  "And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any." - Walt Whitman