Walt Whitman Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Reading Quotes

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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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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

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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

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The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

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We convince by our presence.

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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

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People who serve you without love get even behind your back.

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

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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

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