Quotes By Walt Whitman
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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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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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?
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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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.
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