Walt Whitman Quotes, Death Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

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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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

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Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

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

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

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I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

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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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What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

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I sing the body electric.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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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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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

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Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

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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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