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 WHITMANAnd I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my 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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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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All truths wait in all things.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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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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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
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