"And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, Tenderly will I use you curling grass,It may be you transpire from the breasts of y...












I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
More Walt Whitman quotes
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I loveIf you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or wha...
"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently ...
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
"When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out sp...
"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
"I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for ...
"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get ...
"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well...