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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Written by Walt Whitman
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Written by Walt Whitman
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Written by Walt Whitman
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Written by Walt Whitman
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Written by Walt Whitman
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Written by Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Written by Walt Whitman
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Written by Walt Whitman
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Written by Walt Whitman
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Written by Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Written by Walt Whitman
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Written by Walt Whitman
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Written by Walt Whitman
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Written by Walt Whitman
When I give I give myself.
Written by Walt Whitman
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Written by Walt Whitman
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.
Written by Walt Whitman
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Written by Walt Whitman
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Written by Walt Whitman
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.
Written by Walt Whitman
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Written by Walt Whitman
We convince by our presence.
Written by Walt Whitman
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Written by Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Written by Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Written by Walt Whitman
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Written by Walt Whitman
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Written by Walt Whitman
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Written by Walt Whitman
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Written by Walt Whitman
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Written by Walt Whitman

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