The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
WALT WHITMANWe convince by our presence.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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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We were together. I forget the rest.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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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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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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The real war will never get in the books.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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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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Peace is always beautiful.
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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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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
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Forsake all inhibitions, Pursue thy dreams.
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