Song of the Open Road Quotes

“(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
We convince by our presence.)”
― Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

“Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)”
― Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

“they may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road