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 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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We were together. I forget the rest.
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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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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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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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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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