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.
WALT WHITMANWhen the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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We convince by our presence.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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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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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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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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All truths wait in all things.
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