The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
WALT WHITMANI am satisfied, I see, dance, laugh, sing.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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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 have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
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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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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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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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