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• These are the days that must happen to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Leaves Of Grass, Happens

  Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Those who love each other shall become invincible.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Invincible, Love Each Other

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.373, NYU Press

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• I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking About You, Thinking, Minutes

  Walt Whitman (1995). “Civil War Poetry and Prose”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

  Walt Whitman

  Eye, Leaves Of Grass, Print

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.30, University of Iowa Press

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• Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Dark

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  Walt Whitman

  Gratitude, Fall, Grateful

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

  Walt Whitman

  Long, Forget, Ecstasy

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• I and this mystery, here we stand.

  Walt Whitman

  Mystery

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

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• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Inspirational, Crazy

  Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

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• I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

  Walt Whitman

  Laughing, Doubt, Reincarnation

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• The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

  Walt Whitman

  Promise, Environmental, Haste

  'To the sayers of words' 2

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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.

  Walt Whitman

  Country, Tyrants, People

  Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). “Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index”, p.2148, NYU Press

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• The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

  Walt Whitman

  Trying, President, Meals

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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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.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Sky, America

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• O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Dream, Your Side

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.406, NYU Press

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• If you done it, it ain't bragging.

  Walt Whitman

  Conceited, Done, Bragging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, Soul, Infinite

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Worry, Waiting

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• Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Soul, Insult, Your Soul

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.39

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• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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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.

  Walt Whitman

  Excess, Strange, Mark

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• I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Boots, Hats

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.148, Psychology Press

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  Walt Whitman

  Lessons, Passages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My words itch at your ears till you understand them

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Teacher, Ears

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.191, Psychology Press

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• I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers.
  And I become the other dreamers.

  Walt Whitman

  Dream, Dreamer

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.71

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