Walt Whitman Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Soul Quotes

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

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If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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I loafe and invite my soul.

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I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

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There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

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All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

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Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

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Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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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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Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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