Walt Whitman Quotes, Lying Quotes, Eye Quotes

O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

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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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To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.

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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

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Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

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storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

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I know I am deathlessWe have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

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

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Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

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