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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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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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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
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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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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
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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 think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
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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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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
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I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.
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We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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