Quote of the day by Walt Whitman, “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows....” Why the “Father of Free Verse” believed that by looking toward the light, the shadows of doubt and the past naturally recede

Quote of the day by Walt Whitman, “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman remains the definitive voice of the American spirit, a poet whose influence on national identity is as profound as the founding documents themselves. Born in 1819 in West Hills, New York, Whitman transitioned from a printer’s apprentice to the "Father of Free Verse," forever altering the landscape of global literature. His 1855 masterpiece, Leaves of Grass, broke every established rule of 19th-century poetry.