American - Poet | May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
GrowthTimeFreeLanguageRace
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
SportsGreatBaseballGameAmerican
When I give I give myself.
MyselfRomanticGive
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
DayPeopleWeekTyrannyLoseSpirit
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
BestPeopleGeniusAlwaysCommon
We convince by our presence.
InspirationalPresenceConvinceOur
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
FuturePresentMoreUncertainThan
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
HistoryJusticeWorldJudgingAlways
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
TruthSoulWhateverSatisfies
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
BestSleepGrowEarthPersonNow
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
FunnyBelieveFriendsDoubtEnemies
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
MyselfI AmWellLargeContainVery
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Walt Whitman quotes