Tag: Walt Whitman
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Walt Whitman
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The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
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Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman