What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
WALT WHITMANTo have great poets, there must be great audiences.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what’s popular and don’t know what you are investing in.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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Resist much, obey little.
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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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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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We convince by our presence.
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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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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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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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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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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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