Walt Whitman Quotes, Real Quotes, Sleep Quotes

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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Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.

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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

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The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

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Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

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Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

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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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When I give, I give myself.

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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

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The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

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Many a good man I have seen go under.

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

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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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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

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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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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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