Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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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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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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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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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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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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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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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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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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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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Resist much, obey little.
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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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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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