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  • From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Listening To Others Quotes
  • I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than I have supposed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Weed Quotes , Doubt Quotes
  • The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Democracy Quotes
  • Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul .... and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both .... and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail .... Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Horse Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Book Quotes , School Quotes
  • O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Love Quotes , Dream Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Average Quotes , People Quotes
  • Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Eye Quotes