Walt Whitman Quotes, War Quotes, Ems Quotes

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

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Be curious, not judgmental.

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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

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The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

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A man can be a hero in any profession

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I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

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When I give, I give myself.

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

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

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Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

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Are you the new person drawn toward me?

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