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More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

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Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

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Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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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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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

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Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

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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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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

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

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The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them

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Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.

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