American - Poet | May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
MyselfCharityLittleGiveBehold
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
GoodMyselfAskGood FortuneFortune
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
PerfectHimMayFaultsCandorWho
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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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
WordsBookNothingEverythingDrift
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
MeSaidDoneWhateverLastReturns
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
WomenGreatMenCityMen And Women
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
WalkMeThoughtsTreesWhyNever
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
SympathyWithoutOwnFuneralWalks
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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