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Walt Whitman Inspirational Quotes (455)

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I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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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 anything, but let it produce joy.
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
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Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
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this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.
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Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.
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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.
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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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