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To the garden of the world anew descending,
Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding,
The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber,
The revolving cycles in their wide sweep having brought me again,
amorous, mature, all beautiful to me, all wondrous,
My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
Existing I peer and penetrate still,
Content with the present, content with the past,
By my side or back of me Eve following,
Or in front, and I following her just the same.

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Beautiful, Daughter, Spring

Walt Whitman, “To The Garden The World”

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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

Walt Whitman

Art, Children, Years

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.149, NYU Press

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Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Walt Whitman

Air, Miracle, Age

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

Walt Whitman

Leaves Of Grass, Individual, Theory

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.206, NYU Press

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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

Walt Whitman

Expression, Purpose, Messages

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.716, NYU Press

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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

Walt Whitman

Beautiful, War, Leaves Of Grass

'Reconciliation'

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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

Walt Whitman

Strong, Army, Power

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.335, NYU Press

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Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.

Walt Whitman

Sweet, Art, Cities

Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

Walt Whitman

Determination, Thinking, Compassion

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.175, NYU Press

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

Walt Whitman

Death, Night, Hands

'Reconciliation'

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The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.

Walt Whitman

Night, Sky, Sound

Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

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Beautiful, Law, Games

"With Walt Whitman in Camden". Book by Horace Traubel, Vol. IV (p. 508), 1906.

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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

Walt Whitman

Blood, Evil, Southern

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.408, NYU Press

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With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

Walt Whitman

Strong, Fall, Blow

Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.13, Wildside Press LLC

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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

Walt Whitman

Country, Horse, Doors

Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.142, North Atlantic Books

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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Real, Artist, Humanity

Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.516, NYU Press

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

Sad, Appreciation, Inspirational Life

"Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

Walt Whitman

Life, Long, Joy

Walt Whitman, “Joy, Shipmate, Joy!”

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But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

Walt Whitman

People, Sin, Ill

Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.410, Penguin

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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Walt Whitman

Professors, Capitalist

Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

Walt Whitman

Reading, Book, Men

'So Long!'

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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

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Sun, Kill Me, If I Could

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.35, NYU Press

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A word of the faith that never balks,
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

Walt Whitman

Time, Wonder, Flaws

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

Walt Whitman

Beach, Ocean, Marine

Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

Change, Racist, Fool

Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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Born: May 31, 1819
Died: March 26, 1892
Occupation: Poet
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