Walt Whitman Quotes

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

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Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

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Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

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I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

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Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

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Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something which absorbs him - which may be regarded by others as being useless - yet it is his dream, it is his lodestar, it is his master. That, whatever it is, seized upon me, made me its servant, slave - induced me to set aside the other ambitions a trail of glory in the heavens, which I followed, followed with a full heart. ...When once I am convinced, I never let go.

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

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

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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

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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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