Walt Whitman Quotes

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Walt Whitman

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In the faces of men and women I see God.
- Walt Whitman

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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

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No doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

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Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.
- Walt Whitman

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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
- Walt Whitman

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
- Walt Whitman

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
- Walt Whitman

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I accept reality and dare not question it.
- Walt Whitman

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To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
- Walt Whitman

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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Walt Whitman

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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.
- Walt Whitman

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
- Walt Whitman

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
- Walt Whitman