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Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

-Walt Whitman

art

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

-Walt Whitman

art

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

-Walt Whitman

beauty

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

-Walt Whitman

best

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.

-Walt Whitman

best

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.

-Walt Whitman

best

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

-Walt Whitman

best

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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business

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

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cool

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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death

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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death

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

-Walt Whitman

freedom

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

-Walt Whitman

friendship

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

-Walt Whitman

funny

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

-Walt Whitman

future

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

-Walt Whitman

god

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

-Walt Whitman

god

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

-Walt Whitman

god

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

-Walt Whitman

good

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

-Walt Whitman

good

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

-Walt Whitman

good

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

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great

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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great

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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great

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

-Walt Whitman

great

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

-Walt Whitman

great

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

-Walt Whitman

great

Produce great men, the rest follows.

-Walt Whitman

great

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

-Walt Whitman

history

We convince by our presence.

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inspirational

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

-Walt Whitman

learning

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

-Walt Whitman

men

Produce great men, the rest follows.

-Walt Whitman

men

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

-Walt Whitman

nature

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

-Walt Whitman

nature

Walt Whitman

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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.

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.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

We convince by our presence.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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