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 WHITMANRe-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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 real war will never get in the books.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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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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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
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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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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
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