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.
WALT WHITMANThe truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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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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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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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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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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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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