Walt Whitman

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

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”

“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”

“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.”

“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”

“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.”

“The future is no more uncertain than the present.”

“We convince by our presence.”

“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”