Walt Whitman Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Funeral Quotes

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

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

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Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

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

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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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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

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Where the earth is, we are.

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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

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

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I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

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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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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

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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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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

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