There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Walt WhitmanI heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt WhitmanYou want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
Walt WhitmanAre you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.
Walt WhitmanI mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
Walt Whitman