Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
WALT WHITMANI 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.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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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 do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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All truths wait in all things.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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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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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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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.
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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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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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