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" 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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Walt Whitman

Only

Who

You

" There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. "

" Nothing endures but personal qualities. "

" Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. "

" Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. "

" The future is no more uncertain than the present. "

Walt Whitman

Than

Future

" To have great poets, there must be great audiences. "

" 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. "

Walt Whitman

Fools

Front

" The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. "

" He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. "

" To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. "

" I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. "

Walt Whitman

I Have Learned

Friendship

" 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. "

" The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. "

" I celebrate myself, and sing myself. "

" I exist as I am, that is enough. "

Walt Whitman

Enough

I Am

" 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. "

" Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. "

" Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. "

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

Walt Whitman

Beautiful

Walk

" I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. "

" I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. "

" Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? "

Walt Whitman

Thoughts

Never

" The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. "

" If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. "

" There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. "

" Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. "

" To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. "

Walt Whitman

Hour

Miracle

" Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. "

" The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. "