Walt Whitman Quotes, Past Quotes, Majesty Quotes

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

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I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.

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

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What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

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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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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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I accept reality and dare not question it.

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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

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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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Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

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The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

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