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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
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All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.
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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice! O harvest of my lands! O boundless summer growths! O lavish, brown, parturient earth! O infinite, teeming womb! A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
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I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
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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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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.
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I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.
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Strong and content I travel the open road.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
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Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.
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