Walt Whitman Quotes, Giving Quotes, Divinity Quotes

We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

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I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

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Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

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I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

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And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

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All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

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A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

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Those who love each other shall become invincible.

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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