There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
WALT WHITMANThe proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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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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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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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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All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
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The art of art is simplicity.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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Be not ashamed women, You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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