Walt Whitman quotes - page 8

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. (Walt Whitman)
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? View quote
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. View quote
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? View quote
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. View quote
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. View quote
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I accept reality and dare not question it. View quote
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We convince by our presence. View quote
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. View quote
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. View quote
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. (Walt Whitman)
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. View quote
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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. View quote
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Produce great men, the rest follows. View quote
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. View quote
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. View quote
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. View quote
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior. View quote
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. View quote
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. View quote
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. (Walt Whitman)
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. View quote
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We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only - which is a very great mistake. View quote
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I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings. View quote
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Now obey thy cherished secret wish, Embrace thy friends-leave all in order; To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor! View quote
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