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.
WALT WHITMANNothing endures but personal qualities.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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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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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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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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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
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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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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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