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Walt Whitman Quotes |
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: May 31, 1819 Date of Death: March 26, 1892 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Walt Whitman Related Authors: Maya Angelou Ogden Nash Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Langston Hughes T. S. Eliot |
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Walt Whitman The real war will never get in the books. Walt Whitman 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 The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. Walt Whitman The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. Walt Whitman There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. Walt Whitman There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Walt Whitman There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Walt Whitman To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Walt Whitman To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman 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. Walt Whitman We convince by our presence. Walt Whitman Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman When I give, I give myself. Walt Whitman Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Walt Whitman Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? Walt Whitman |
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