Walt Whitman Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Men Quotes

I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

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Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

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Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.

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

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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.

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In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

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And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

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There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.

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To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.

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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

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I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

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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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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

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I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

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My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

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