Walt Whitman Quotes, Exercise Quotes, Past Quotes

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

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I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

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You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

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Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

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You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

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