American - Poet | May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
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?
Walt Whitman
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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.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
BeautifulDeathNothingWillMore
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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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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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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