Walt Whitman Quotes, Moments Quotes

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

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The art of art... is simplicity.

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I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

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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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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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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

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Peace is always beautiful.

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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

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

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

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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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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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