Walt Whitman Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Sea Quotes

I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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Are you the new person drawn toward me?

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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

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What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

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My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

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The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

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

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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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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

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Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

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