38 quotes by Walt Whitman

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” — Walt Whitman

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“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” — Walt Whitman

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“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.” — Walt Whitman

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“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.” — Walt Whitman

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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.” — Walt Whitman

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“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” — 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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“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” — Walt Whitman

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“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” — Walt Whitman

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“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“The future is no more uncertain than the present.” — 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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“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” — Walt Whitman

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“Produce great men, the rest follows.” — Walt Whitman

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“We convince by our presence.” — Walt Whitman

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“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.” — Walt Whitman

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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.” — Walt Whitman

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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.” — Walt Whitman

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“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” — 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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“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” — Walt Whitman

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“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.” — Walt Whitman

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“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” — Walt Whitman

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“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.” — Walt Whitman

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