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Quotes By author - Starting with W - Walt Whitman
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There are 84 quotes for the author Walt Whitman
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I do not believe I deserved my friends.
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Friendship   
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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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Poetry   
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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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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Democracy   
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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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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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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If you done it, it ain't bragging.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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When I give I give myself.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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