Walt Whitman

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air read more

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the read more

Lo! body and soul!--this land!
Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and
The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships;
The varied and ample land,--the South
And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri,
And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.
- Walt Whitman,