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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
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All is procession the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.
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I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
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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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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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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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