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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long.
WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass
To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.
WALT WHITMAN, Notes Left Over
- Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
- Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
- All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
- All the governments, judges, gods.
WALT WHITMAN, A Woman Waits for Me
- Press close bare-bosom'd night -- press close magnetic nourishing night!
- Night of south winds -- night of the large few stars!
- Still nodding night -- mad naked summer night.
WALT WHITMAN, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Open Road
The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN, Preface to Leaves of Grass
- Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,
- That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
- For my enemy is dead, a man as divine as myself is dead,
- I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin -- I draw near,
- Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
WALT WHITMAN, Reconciliation
- A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
- If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the
- whole world.
WALT WHITMAN, "Song of the Broad-Axe"
Strong and content I travel the open road.
WALT WHITMAN, Song of the Open Road
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