Walt Whitman
Quotations
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“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.” -Walt Whitman
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“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.” -Walt Whitman
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“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.” -Walt Whitman
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“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.” -Walt Whitman
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“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.” -Walt Whitman
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“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.” -Walt Whitman
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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.” -Walt Whitman
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“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” -Walt Whitman
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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.” -Walt Whitman
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“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” -Walt Whitman
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“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.” -Walt Whitman
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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” -Walt Whitman
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“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” -Walt Whitman
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“The future is no more uncertain than the present.” -Walt Whitman
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“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” -Walt Whitman
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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” -Walt Whitman
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“Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.” -Walt Whitman
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“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” -Walt Whitman
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“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” -Walt Whitman
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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.” -Walt Whitman
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“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” -Walt Whitman
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“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.” -Walt Whitman
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“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” -Walt Whitman
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