Walt Whitman Quotes, Ties Quotes, Sea Quotes

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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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

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I know I am deathlessWe have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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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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All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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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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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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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.

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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 truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

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Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

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