Walt Whitman Quotes, Dance Quotes

I dance with the dancers.

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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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

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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

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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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My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

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As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

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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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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

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I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

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