Walt Whitman Quotes, Battle Quotes, Revolution Quotes

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

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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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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

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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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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

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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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Be curious, not judgmental.

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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

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

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

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This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

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This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

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