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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail
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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.
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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me.
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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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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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.
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Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
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I sing the body electric.
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The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them
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The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.
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