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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 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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And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.
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O amazement of things-even the least particle!
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.
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I refuse putting from me the best that I am.
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O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.
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Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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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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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.
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Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.
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I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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