The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
WALT WHITMANEvery hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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 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.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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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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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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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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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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