Walt Whitman Quotes, Real Quotes, Artist Quotes

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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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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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

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Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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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 process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

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I accept reality and dare not question it.

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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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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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

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Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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