The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
WALT WHITMANWe convince by our presence.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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 smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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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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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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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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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
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