Walt Whitman Quotes, War Quotes, Sadness Quotes

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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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

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Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

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If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

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I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

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The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.

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This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

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You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

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Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

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Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

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Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

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