Walt Whitman Quotes

Oh captain my captain

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In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

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I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

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

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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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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

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The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

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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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Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

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I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

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

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I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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