But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.
Walt Whitman Quotes
Peace is always beautiful, The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me – Mannahatta, ‘the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.’ How fit a name for America’s great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, […]
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
I think I could turn and live with the animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not sweat and whine about their condition… Not one is dissatisfied. Not one is demented with the mania of owning things… Not one is disrespectful or unhappy over the world.
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments, it is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men’s chorus, nor that of the woman’s chorus It […]
With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world, Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge, This earth all spann’d with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading in […]
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
