Quotes by Whitman, Walt

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspiratio >>

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. >>

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind adv >>

Quotations about America

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish >>

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while i >>

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all >>

Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.

Whitman, Walt