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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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    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Passion Quotes , Arbitrary Quotes
  • There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Men Quotes , Order Quotes
  • A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Children Quotes , Kissing Quotes
  • The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Country Quotes , Song Quotes