Walt Whitman Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

  Walt Whitman

  Party, Flower, School

  Walt Whitman (2009). “Democratic Vistas: The Original Edition in Facsimile”, p.33, University of Iowa Press

• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Stars, Believe

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

  Walt Whitman

  Ignorance, Democracy, Rulership

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.409, Penguin

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