Walt WhitmanThinkers

The Audience itself must be great in order to have great poets.

Baseball is a game that will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

Censorship is itself dirty. The dirtiest book of all is the censored book.

A City is great which has the greatest man or woman: If it be a few ragged huts, it can still be the greatest city in the whole world.

The Future is no more uncertain than the present.

Giving is a habit that only enhances the desire to give.

Grass's single leaf is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Illiteracy is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

The Journalist is one who has been known to be a midnight ghoul preying on rottenness and repulsive filth.

Man is a being for whom every jot of his greatness is unfolded out of woman.