Walt Whitman Quotes

• All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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• As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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• The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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• Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

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• Be not ashamed women, … You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

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• Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

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• As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself-as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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• When I give, I give myself.

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• Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.

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• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

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• I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

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• Resist much, obey little.

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• Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.

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• A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls.

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• Be curious, not judgmental.

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the she down will fall behind you.

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• I have learned that to be with those i like is enough.

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• What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print i have read in my life.

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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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Walt Whitman (117)

Birth:	31st May, 1819
Death:	26th March, 1892
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Humanist, Journalist, Poet

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