The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
Walt WhitmanThere's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
Walt WhitmanWe arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
Walt WhitmanI know I am deathlessย We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
Walt WhitmanTo me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
Walt Whitman