More from Walt Whitman
- Song of Myself (1855), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Song of Myself, 48In context
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), MiraclesI see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
