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Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.
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All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
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Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face, We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss. Whoever you are, I give it especially to you So long!And I hope we shall meet again.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
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Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.
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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.
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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?
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A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.
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You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here
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I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy
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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.
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