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• O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Travel, Tourism

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

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• Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Feelings, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.33, NYU Press

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Blood

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Children, Men

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of Myself', section 6.

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• An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

  Walt Whitman

  Reality, Space, Brain

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Pride, Men

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• Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

  Walt Whitman

  Drinking, Son, Men

  "Song of Myself " l. 497 (written 1855)

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• You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

  Walt Whitman

  Bending, Sides, Necks

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80, Bantam Classics

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, Self

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• I know perfectly well my own egotism.

  Walt Whitman

  Egotism, Wells, My Own

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.67, NYU Press

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• Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Moving, Young

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.443, NYU Press

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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

  Art, School, Past

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.365, NYU Press

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Powerful, Slave

  Walt Whitman, “Poem Of Joys”

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• Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Government, Despotism

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.330, Courier Corporation

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• The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Stronger, Wealth

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Tools, Tribes

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• All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Needs, Bigs

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.99, University of Iowa Press

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• At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

  Walt Whitman

  Poetry, Likes, Odd

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• Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

  Walt Whitman

  Shade, My Thoughts, Lasting

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.407, NYU Press

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• A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, People, Identity

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• I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
  The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Garden, Broken

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.386, Delphi Classics

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• There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Earth, Theory, Accounts

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Song, Thinking

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.302, Delphi Classics

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• I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

  Walt Whitman

  Names, Promise, Desert

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White (2008). “Leaves of Grass: Vol. I-III: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.634, NYU Press

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• I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Doe, Deeds

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.480, Melville House

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