I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
WALT WHITMANThe road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Those who love each other shall become invincible.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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