Walt Whitman

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"We convince by our presence."

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."

"Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…"

"Songs of myselfI am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue. I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,.."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

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

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us."

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

"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."

"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

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

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

"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 what I meanBut I shall be good health to you nonethelessAnd filter and fibre your blood."

"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."

"I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,"

"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes and all time."