Walt Whitman Quotes, Perfection Quotes

There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

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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!

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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

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Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

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Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

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Are you the new person drawn toward me?

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

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I know perfectly well my own egotism.

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I hate commas in the wrong places.

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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

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