Walt Whitman Quotes

The below Walt Whitman quotes are some of my very favorites. Walt was a big bearded bard who reminds us to be ourselves. He was a voice for democracy. He stood up for freedom, common people and ordinary things. His poems are full of chants and barbaric shouts. He teaches us that laziness has its place and loafing isn't all bad.





* Loaf with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat.

* I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

* What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls
restrained by decorum.

* Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes,
Limitless out of the dusk, out of cedars and pines.

* I do not press my fingers across my mouth.

* Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me
If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me.

* I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

* I tilt my hat anyway I choose.

* Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from the jambs!

* I no longer seek good fortune, I myself am good fortune.

* I am large, I contain multitudes.