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Danh ngôn của Walt Whitman (Sứ mệnh: 9)

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
When I give I give myself.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
We convince by our presence.
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
The real war will never get in the books.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.