The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
WALT WHITMANA morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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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.
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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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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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All truths wait in all things.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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Be not ashamed women, You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing – you.
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A man can be a hero in any profession.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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We convince by our presence.
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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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