American - Poet | May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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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.
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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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