Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892) was an American poet. He had worked as a teacher, journalist and printer. He gained renown through his poems, Leaves of Grass, 1855-92. During the Civil War, he nursed wounded soldiers, eventually becoming ill himself. His free- verse poems expressed a democratic idealism, as seen in his Democratic Vistas, 1871. His other works include: Drum Taps, 1865, and Specimen Days, 1882-83.
In "Starting from Paumanok," from his Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman wrote:
<I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake....
I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion.> 1819WH001
Walt Whitman expressed:
<To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.> 1819WH002
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Endnotes:
1819WH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Walt Whitman, 1855-1892, in Leaves of Grass, Starting from Paumanok. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 574.
1819WH002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Walt Whitman. Nancy Gibbs, "The Message of Miracles" (New York: Time, April 10, 1995), Vol. 145, No. 15, p. 70.