A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMANWe were together. I forget the rest.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.
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We convince by our presence.
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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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All truths wait in all things.
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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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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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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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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
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