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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Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

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Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)

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All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

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I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

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

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

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The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

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