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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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• 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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• 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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• All truths wait in all things.

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  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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• It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

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  Beautiful, Artist, Men

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.479, Melville House

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• Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

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  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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

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  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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• The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days”, p.115, NYU Press

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

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  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 have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

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  Prayer, Eye, Done

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.215, NYU Press

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• There was never any more inception than there is now,
  Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

  Walt Whitman

  Perfection, Heaven, Age

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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• Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Stars, Moon

  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.643, NYU Press

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• I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

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  Ocean, Sleep, Storm

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.288, NYU Press

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• Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Hands, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, “To You”

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• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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  America, United States, States

  Leaves of Grass preface (1855)

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• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

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  Leaves Of Grass, Shows, Smallest

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.25, University of Iowa Press

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• A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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  Beauty, Nature, Morning

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

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• this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

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  Art, Stars, Book

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.204, Library of America

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• I tramp a perpetual journey.

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  Travel, Journey, Tramps

  Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.3, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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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.

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  College, America, People

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.50, Wildside Press LLC

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• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

  Walt Whitman

  Happy, Talking, Confusion

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

  Walt Whitman

  Looks, Want, Dirt

  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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• A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

  Walt Whitman

  Greatness, Men, Earth

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.161, NYU Press

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• I dance with the dancers.

  Walt Whitman

  Dance, Dancer

  Walt Whitman (2014). “Whitman: Poems”, p.9, Everyman's Library

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