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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

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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 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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To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom - one brief hour of madness and joy.

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And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

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I hate commas in the wrong places.

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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.

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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

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My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

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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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The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life.

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

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