Walt Whitman Quotes

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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Walt Whitman
I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy

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The world, the race, the soul — Space and time, the universes All bound as is befitting each — all Surely going somewhere.

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Over all the sky - the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded with eternal stars.

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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

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The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
it comes or it lags behind,
It comes from its embowered garden
and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

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Year of comets and meteors transient and strange — lo! even here one equally transient and strange! As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant? What am I but one of you meteors?

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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