Walt Whitman Quotes, People Quotes, Sin Quotes

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

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Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

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We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.

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

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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

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

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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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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

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A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

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I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

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I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

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