I hate commas in the wrong places.
WALT WHITMANThe road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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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A man can be a hero in any profession.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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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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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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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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Be not ashamed women, You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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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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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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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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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
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