"All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any."
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Walt Whitman quotes (page 13 of 25)
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"In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word."
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"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
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"If you want me again look for me under your boot soles."
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"When I give, I give myself."
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"All truths wait in all things."
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"My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed."
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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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"An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality."
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"Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough."
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"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers."
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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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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it."
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"Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as now, The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,) Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me."
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"O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!"
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"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
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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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"The best writing has no lace on its sleeves."
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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
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"not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo."
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