A Child's Voice

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.

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

"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."


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