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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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I tramp a perpetual journey.
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The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night, Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation: The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen closer, I find its purpose and place up there toward the November sky.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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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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There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.
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The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.
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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.
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Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
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I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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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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We convince by our presence.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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