The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
WALT WHITMAN
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.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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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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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
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Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
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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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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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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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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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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
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All truths wait in all things.
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