Walt Whitman Short Quotes

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

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If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

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Oh amazement of things — even the least particle!

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

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I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

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And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.

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As for me, I love screaming, wrestling, boiling-hot days.

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The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.

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And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.

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Camerado, this is no book,
Who touches this touches a man.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman.

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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking.

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

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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

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O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.

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

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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The universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

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I shall use the word America and democracy as convertible terms.

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Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

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

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

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The clock indicates the moment - but what does eternity indicate?

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And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

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