Walt Whitman Quotes, Nature Quotes, Animal Quotes

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.

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

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

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O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

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But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

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And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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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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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

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