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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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The art of art... is simplicity.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
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I speak the password primeval I give the sign of democracy.
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Oh captain my captain
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I know perfectly well my own egotism.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won
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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.
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I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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I have no mockings or arguments I witness and wait.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth I dreamed that was the new City of Friends Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.
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