Walt Whitman Quotes, War Quotes, Ems Quotes

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

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

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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.

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From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

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Be curious, not judgmental.

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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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When I give, I give myself.

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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

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