I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

About Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often...

More quotations from Walt Whitman

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

—Walt Whitman

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

—Walt Whitman

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

—Walt Whitman

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which . . . wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough — a modest living — and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

—Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself?/ Very well then I contradict myself,/ (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

—Walt Whitman