Walt Whitman Quotes, Fall Quotes, Dumb Quotes

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

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To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

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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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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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Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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

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Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

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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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Where the earth is, we are.

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People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

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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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Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

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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.

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