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.
WALT WHITMANSimplicity is the glory of expression.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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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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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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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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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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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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Where the earth is, we are.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
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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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