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.
WALT WHITMANA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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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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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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