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 WHITMANEither define the moment or the moment will define you.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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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.
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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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A man can be a hero in any profession.
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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
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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 dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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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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Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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Those who love each other shall become invincible.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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