Selected Poems Quotes

“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”
― Walt Whitman, Selected Poems

“When the full-grown poet came,
Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all
its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled,
Nay, he is mine alone;
— Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
Which he will never release until he reconciles the two,
And wholly and joyously blends them.”
― Walt Whitman, Selected Poems

“To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,”
― Walt Whitman, Selected Poems