On the 197th anniversary of his birth, BBC Culture readers share their favourite quotes from the great American poet. Stephen Shames' photography offers a radically new and candid picture of the ...

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.” “Happiness, not in another place but this ...

Yet the tremendous original power of this new bard, and the freshness, as of nature itself, which breathed though the best of his songs or sayings ... announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ...