Top 400 Walt Whitman Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed – those who saw it differently from you?”

— Walt Whitman

102. “To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.”

— Walt Whitman

103. “I accept reality and dare not question it.”

— Walt Whitman

104. “I love doctors and hate their medicine.”

— Walt Whitman

105. “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.”

— Walt Whitman

106. “Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.”

— Walt Whitman

107. “The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess’d them.”

— Walt Whitman

108. “Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.”

— Walt Whitman

109. “Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.”

— Walt Whitman

110. “Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”

— Walt Whitman

111. “All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!”

— Walt Whitman

112. “Agonies are one of my changes of garments.”

— Walt Whitman

113. “The Past – the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf – the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?”

— Walt Whitman

114. “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

115. “The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.”

— Walt Whitman

116. “For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!”

— Walt Whitman

117. “I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.”

— Walt Whitman

118. “Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”

— Walt Whitman

119. “Strong and content I travel the open road.”

— Walt Whitman

120. “Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.”

— Walt Whitman

121. “Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

— Walt Whitman

122. “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”

— Walt Whitman

123. “If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”

— Walt Whitman

124. “The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.”

— Walt Whitman

125. “I am not contain’d between my hat and boots.”

— Walt Whitman

126. “Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.”

— Walt Whitman

127. “Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

128. “And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles.”

— Walt Whitman

129. “My words itch at your ears till you understand them.”

— Walt Whitman

130. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”

— Walt Whitman

131. “Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.”

— Walt Whitman

132. “I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.”

— Walt Whitman

133. “To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim – the rocks – the motion of the waves – the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?”

— Walt Whitman

134. “God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.”

— Walt Whitman

135. “The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.”

— Walt Whitman

136. “Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.”

— Walt Whitman

137. “Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.”

— Walt Whitman

138. “When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.”

— Walt Whitman

139. “Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.”

— Walt Whitman

140. “Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

— Walt Whitman

141. “Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”

— Walt Whitman

142. “The real war will never get in the books.”

— Walt Whitman

143. “In the faces of men and women, I see God.”

— Walt Whitman

144. “So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel’d road.”

— Walt Whitman

145. “And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.”

— Walt Whitman

146. “I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.”

— Walt Whitman

147. “Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.”

— Walt Whitman

148. “Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”

— Walt Whitman

149. “Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.”

— Walt Whitman

150. “And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.”

— Walt Whitman