Quotes by Walt Whitman

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

The real war will never get in the books.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.