Walt Whitman Quotes about War

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The real war will never get in the books.

The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

Memorial Day, Real, War

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.115, NYU Press

I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

Walt Whitman

War, Sadness, Eye

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

Walt Whitman

War, Ems, Saws

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

Walt Whitman

Beautiful, War, Leaves Of Grass

'Reconciliation'

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Walt Whitman

War, Blood, History

Walt Whitman (1995). “Specimen Days: & Collect”, p.314, Courier Corporation

Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

Walt Whitman

Memorial Day, Real, War

Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation