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.
WALT WHITMANThe gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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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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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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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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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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