Walt Whitman Quotes, Death Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

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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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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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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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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

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NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

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Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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

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You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

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I accept reality and dare not question it.

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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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You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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