Walt Whitman Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Art Quotes

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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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

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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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I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

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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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Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

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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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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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Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

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I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

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I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

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I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

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A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

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