O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
WALT WHITMANWe were together. I forget the rest.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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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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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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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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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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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 and this mystery, here we stand.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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