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• When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

  Walt Whitman

  Architect, Ready, Materials

  "Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856".

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• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Environmental, Haste

  'To the sayers of words' 2

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• Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

  Walt Whitman

  Healthy, World, Road Trip

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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• Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Vices, World

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• Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

  Walt Whitman

  Saws

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• All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Blood, Brain

  Walt Whitman, David S. Reynolds (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.

  Walt Whitman

  Lying, Eye, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.101, New York Review of Books

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• All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Delivery, All Things

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.73, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Life Is, Heartbeat

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Memoranda During the War: Civil War Journals, 1863-1865”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Body, Ifs

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.118, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?

  Walt Whitman

  Horse, Freedom, Soul

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.186

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

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.169, Routledge

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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• Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Charity, Personal Worth

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.245, NYU Press

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• I loafe and invite my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Invites, My Soul

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.129, Psychology Press

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• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

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  Inspiration, Giving, Charity

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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• To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Madness, Hours

  Walt Whitman (1947). “Leaves of Grass”

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• I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

  Walt Whitman

  Mistake, Usual, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.131, University of Iowa Press

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• Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Reflection, Sea, Ships

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.269, NYU Press

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• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

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  Deep Water, Soul, Risk

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.435, NYU Press

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• You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

  Walt Whitman

  Investing, Want, Way

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• All truths wait in all things.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Leaves Of Grass, All Things

  Walt Whitman, Gary David Comstock (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.72, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Lightning, Spirit

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.334, NYU Press

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• If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspiring, Sacred Art, Leaves Of Grass

  1855 Leaves of Grass, 'Children of Adam', 'I Sing the Body Electric', section 8.

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