These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMANThe proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed 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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Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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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 am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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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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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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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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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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We convince by our presence.
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