Walt Whitman Quotes

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people." "The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling" "I am he that walks with the tender and growing night" "I sing the body electric" "Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you." "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." "I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear"