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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same - to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles
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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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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.
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The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
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What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!
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I am larger, better than I thought I did not know I held so much goodness.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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I love doctors and hate their medicine.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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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 have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.
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The art of art... is simplicity.
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Are you the new person drawn toward me?
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
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