{"author":"Walt Whitman","author_id":"Walt+Whitman","total_quotes":183,"quotes":[{"text":"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,I will have thousands of globes and all time.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["freedom","soul","time"],"id":78,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["cynicism","drudgery","optimism","purpose","work"],"id":529,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"(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?","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["inspirational","miracles"],"id":2792,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. ","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["animals","walt-whitman"],"id":2803,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["mysticism","poetry","spirituality","transcendentalism"],"id":4871,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned  or of dictionary-makers  but is something arising out of the work  needs  ties  joys  affections  tastes  of long generations of humanity  and has its bases broad and low  close to the ground.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["language"],"id":8691,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["sacred","sensuality"],"id":8887,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["great","you","lessons "],"id":15227,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["justice","world","judging "],"id":18538,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"},{"text":"The future is no more uncertain than the present.","author":"Walt Whitman","tags":["present","uncertain","than "],"id":21387,"author_id":"Walt+Whitman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":183,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}