(I know, it's a poem but oh well).
Why! who makes much of a miracle?
As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the
water,
Or stand under trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love--or sleep in the bed at night with
any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with my mother,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive, of a summer forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds--or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sun-down--or of stars shining so quiet
and bright,
Or the exquisite, delicate, thin curve of the new moon in spring;
Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best--
mechanics, boatmen, farmers,
Or among the savans--or to the soiree--or to the opera,
Or stand a long while looking at the movements of machinery,
Or behold children at their sports,
Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man, or the perfect old
woman,
Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial,
Or my own eyes and figure in the glass;
These, with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring--yet each distinct, and in its place.

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the
same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same;
Every spear of grass--the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women,
and all that concerns them,
All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

To me the sea is a continual miracle;
The fishes that swim--the rocks--the motion of the waves--the ships,
with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?


Walt Whitman

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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me un...
WALT WHITMAN
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
WALT WHITMAN
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
WALT WHITMAN
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ...
WALT WHITMAN
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat...
WALT WHITMAN
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
WALT WHITMAN
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I...
WALT WHITMAN
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose t...
WALT WHITMAN
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about G...
WALT WHITMAN
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
WALT WHITMAN
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
WALT WHITMAN
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found t...
WALT WHITMAN
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMAN
There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he becam...
WALT WHITMAN
Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age ma...
WALT WHITMAN
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and...
WALT WHITMAN
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triu...
WALT WHITMAN
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitude...
WALT WHITMAN
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and wat...
WALT WHITMAN
There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
WALT WHITMAN
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
WALT WHITMAN
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots,...
WALT WHITMAN
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
WALT WHITMAN
Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
WALT WHITMAN
I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms
WALT WHITMAN
The future is no more uncertain than the present
WALT WHITMAN
He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes be...
WALT WHITMAN
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
WALT WHITMAN
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
WALT WHITMAN
Oh captain my captain
WALT WHITMAN
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
WALT WHITMAN
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and loo...
WALT WHITMAN
We were together. I forget the rest.
WALT WHITMAN
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
WALT WHITMAN
It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical ...
WALT WHITMAN
When I give, I give myself
WALT WHITMAN
Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
WALT WHITMAN
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful...
WALT WHITMAN
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
WALT WHITMAN
If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
WALT WHITMAN
Peace is always beautiful.
WALT WHITMAN
I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
WALT WHITMAN
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
WALT WHITMAN
I am large, I contain multitudes
WALT WHITMAN
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
WALT WHITMAN
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
WALT WHITMAN
Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
WALT WHITMAN
Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN
Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
WALT WHITMAN
Many a good man I have seen go under.
WALT WHITMAN
These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN
I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
WALT WHITMAN
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
WALT WHITMAN
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
WALT WHITMAN
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
WALT WHITMAN
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
WALT WHITMAN
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
WALT WHITMAN
Simplicity is the glory of expression
WALT WHITMAN
Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
WALT WHITMAN
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
WALT WHITMAN
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
WALT WHITMAN
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
WALT WHITMAN