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• Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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  Equality, Rights, Giving

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.425, NYU Press

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• THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

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  Men, Dust, Hands

  'This dust was once the man'

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• From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

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  Hours, Masters, My Own

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• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

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  Beautiful, Profound, Perfect

  Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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  Nature, Sleep, Air

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

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  Nature, Ease, Standing

  'Me imperturbe'

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• I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

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  Fortune, Good Fortune

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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  Death, Dying, Different

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

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• And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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  Leaves Of Grass, Flesh, Fluency

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

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  Beautiful, Sea, Breathing

  Walt Whitman (2017). “Leaves of Grass”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

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  Everyday, Dozen, Walt

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• There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.

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  Thinking, Doubt, Enemy

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• The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

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  Spring, Feet, Earth

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

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• I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

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  Years, Waiting, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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  Sea, Age, Aging

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• Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Ornaments

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

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  Encouragement, Art, Science

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.46

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• I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

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  Summer, Winter, Leaves Of Grass

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• The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

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  Heart, Moon, Light

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

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  Hands, Long, Identity

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"”, p.87, University of Iowa Press

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• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

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  Softball, Sports, Baseball

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• Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

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  School, Humanity, Democracy

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1406, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

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  Prayer, Believe, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.53, Delphi Classics

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• I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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  Healing, Dead Poets Society, Teens

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, I, II, VI & LII”

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• Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

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  Love, Night, Long

  Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.229, Counterpoint Press

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