Walt Whitman Quotes, Reading Quotes, Writing Quotes

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

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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.

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It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.

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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

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My words itch at your ears till you understand them

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If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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Peace is always beautiful.

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Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

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What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

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Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

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But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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

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