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• Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughter, Ambition, Sleep

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.189, Bantam Classics

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• I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

  Walt Whitman

  Law, Evil, Action

  Walt Whitman, Christopher Castiglia, Glenn Hendler (2007). “Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times”, p.68, Duke University Press

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• Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Essence, Fruition

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Love Is, Long

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.511, NYU Press

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• This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

  Walt Whitman

  Dog, Snakes, Mouths

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.134, NYU Press

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• I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

  Walt Whitman

  Wise, Children, Men

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Song of Myself”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Waiting, Short Death

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

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• All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

  Walt Whitman

  Sweet, Singing, Oboes

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.90, NYU Press

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• The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

  Walt Whitman

  Missing, Fruition, Chance

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.137, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

  Walt Whitman

  Hug, Trying, Alarms

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

  Walt Whitman

  Military, Giving, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Leaves of Grass: Top Classic Poetry”, p.76, 谷月社

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• We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Sun, Calm

  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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• I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Argument, Witness

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.5, NYU Press

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• As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, America, Yellowstone

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

  Walt Whitman

  Teacher, Style, Honor

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

  Walt Whitman

  Crowds, Arms, Festivals

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.19, NYU Press

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• Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Giving, Manhattan

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.280, St. Martin's Press

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• Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

  Walt Whitman

  Success, Effort, Fruition

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• Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
  nourishing Night!
  Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
  Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Stars, Night

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.27, NYU Press

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• The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Majesty, Vacant

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Years, Hearing

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.63, NYU Press

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• Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

  Walt Whitman

  Sky, Simplicity, Forever

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.53, Psychology Press

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• Ah little recks the laborer,
  How near his work is holding him to God,
  The loving Laborer through space and time

  Walt Whitman

  Space, Littles, Time And Space

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Strong and content I travel the open road.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Strong, Leaves Of Grass

  1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

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