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 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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A man can be a hero in any profession.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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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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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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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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All truths wait in all things.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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